Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Bloodline: Descendents of the Digidestined ❯ The Birth of Yuumei Omnimon ( Chapter 11 )

Bloodline: Descendants of the Digidestined

Chapter 11: The Birth of Yuumei Omnimon

Prologue: Sorry, but I've gotten used to it. From here on out, I'm using all the original version names. That is all.

Tetsuo recounts, "Well, as you know, beforehand, the author got his butt kicked by the legendary Super Saiya-jin Trunks. Enough about that. Last time, Lily's powers began to surface, and grow. She tore clean through DOS Cog, the lowly grunts in District Attorneymon's palace, and even a younger Attorneymon doppelganger with ease, and this is just her Mega form. When she met of Neo Apocalymon's old Overlord chums, she reached her Giga form and wiped them out in a flash, but before she finished Thanatomon off, he said she was the Megami. What does that mean? She finally met District Attorneymon, the Omega form of Attorneymon. He killed Paladin Lilymon in front of Lily's eyes. This caused her to reach her Terra lever, Magna Lilysapia. Back in the present, Laomon tried all she could against Marleymon, but then fate sided with her when she turned and used the city's gas line to torch the specter, then sucked him away with her `Shadows of the Sakura Blossoms' attack. Depressed and guilty over her past, she soon after went back to her old domicile and wept. The search for Masato, Lotusmon, Yuuji, and Sirenamon kept on until they received a call from Sora at the Mayo Clinic. Now that her jaw was better, including a lot of unrequested extras that make the six million man look cheap, she was able to tell them what she saw. Soon after, Lewis gathered everyone to start thinking of when Lily was. As for the other four, they were still in the alternate universe, trying to get their time key back. Sirenamon made the suggestion of using her Siren Song on the men at the station and make them hand it over. She didn't anticipate what the female cops would do, and before she knew it, was surrounded by police. She hijacked a police battering ram and careened down the streets. Davis joined the pursuit after she ran over his car. She did get away eventually, but not before becoming Japan's Most Wanted criminal, a ¥5,000,000 reward placed on her by the police and a ¥100,000,000 bounty on her head offered by Davis, which made things harder. Inside the Dominion ranks, Attorneymon finally got that Red Ring on Malachimon's finger, which, to Attorneymon's surprise, revived Thanatomon, and he possessed her body. Not long after, Safiirumon learned of this evil scheme and warned Lance, whom both decided to keep a low profile until they had the opportunity to save Malachimon. Once all the kinks were worked out, Masato, Yuuji, Sirenamon, Lotusmon went to the future, escorted by the Tai, Mimi, Agumon, and Lilymon of the other universe, and Izzy's daughter Yumi. While Lily fought the DA, the others fought new and improved forms of Belial Myotismon, Atmamon, and Armageddongreymon, but the worst was yet to attack. Witnessing the power of the other universe's Agumon, Excelgreymon, the soldiers unleashed one of their most powerful digimon, Rakshasamon. In the end, Rakshasamon destroyed Tokyo, but both Rakshasamon and District Attorneymon fell. Atop Mt. Fuji, as the dying Paladin Lilymon said, they found the Gaia Temple, where Mimi's body lies. To their luck, the monks told them of a time travel device Safiirumon had made hoping to go back and prevent all the madness that occurred due to Lily's disappearance, but was made mad through torture before he could use it or tell anyone how to use it. Yumi soon figured it out, just as a massive quake started. Lily is finally home."

"Forgiveness, honesty, trust; things we are all brought up to believe in. No one is born good or evil. That comes in time, or so I thought. Some things, like digimon, are born good or evil. What worries me is, what will happen if you can't find the truth in what you know anymore? Only one thing is constant: Ambiguity."

Lewis asks, "Where were you guys?" Tai from other realm (Alternate Universe characters will have (03) after their names) says, "Well, Izzy found them after Sirenamon got busting for punching out a college professor." Lilymon asks, "What about Lily?" Masato goes, "It's best you ask her. We're not sure, except that our digivices said we were in the year 2500. Everything then was so... dead." Tai (FT) says, "Let's talk a bit so we can find out what happened." Tai (03) says, "Sounds good." Sirenamon says, "I'm glad we're back. I'm going to whip up something for us to eat. Trekking across those wastelands has left me famished." She goes inside. The ambulance arrives, and they carry Algaemon and Palmon on stretchers into the ambulance. Masato tries to get in. The EMT says, "The back is for patients only." Algaemon goes, "Don't worry Masato. I'll be fine now. You can see me at the hospital." Some police arrive as well and check the area. Suddenly, one more squad car rolls up. Yuuji thinks, "Don't let it be dad..." Out comes a black haired man with short sideburns and reflective shades. He looks over and says, "Yuuji? What the hell is Yuuji doing here?" On his badge, it shows his name, Seki Kai. He walks over to Yuuji. "What the hell are you doing here Yuuji?! You left me to think those digital monsters of the Dominion kidnapped you or killed you or something!!" Yuuji goes, "But most of the phone lines were down, and...." Kai says, "Shut up, Yuuji." Lilymon walks over, "Kai.... You must be Yuuji's father. Let us ex...." Before she can finish he whacks her with his billy club. "That's enough, vile killing monstrosity!! We're going home, Yuuji!! I don't want to see you with them again!!" The commotion grabs Sirenamon's attention. Yuuji goes, "But dad, you don't...." Kai says, "Yes, I do understand. They are mischievous troublemakers that have no regard for life and death because they never die!!" He drags Yuuji with him. "I love you too much to one of those `things' ruin your life again!!" He throws him in the squad car. Sirenamon goes all puppy-eyed. "He's so beautiful, and he must love Yuuji as much as I do. I feel so bad for him." Shortly after, the emergency crews leave. Tai (FT) asks, "What was all that about?" Sirenamon comes up and says, "Yuuji told me about this. When Yuuji was four, according to what his dad reported, his wife was returning home after going to the grocery store. Suddenly, he said that a digimon moved out in front of her car. Trying to dodge it, she spun out, smashed into a streetlight and ricocheted into a brick wall, then the light fell down on top of the car. He was the first to arrive, and swore, from his line of sight, that the same digimon was trying to strangle her, and remembers two other figures backing away. When he yelled `Freeze,' the digimon bolted, and he saw a flash of light, so he assumed that the digimon had fled back to the Digital World. Ever since, he has loathed digimon and wants Yuuji to have no part involving digimon and the Digital World." Kari goes, "How sad." Lilymon holds her right cheek. "That was still no reason to bean me with a baton. Now I'm going to have a big bruise here." Lewis goes, "My big question is, what the hell is going on?" Tai (03) goes, "Well, let us inform you."

Lewis starts laughing on his couch. "So you're saying Sirenamon is now the most wanted fugitive in Japan!! And I thought I had bad luck!!" Mimi (03) says, "Yeah, then when we found Lily in the year 2500, a big army attacked us and used these control spire digimon in a pill. The one that hurt Palmon and Algaemon so bad was called Rakshasamon." Koromon (03) adds, "I had to go inside her to finish her, and then, she still was beating me up. If you ever meet one, watch out for her `Mammon Might' attack or her `Shower of Damnation.' Man, those Omega digimon are tough." Mimi (FT) exclaims, "Omega!! You mean they take out a capsule and boom, instant Omega digimon?!" Yumi nods her head. Moments later, Lily stirs. "Grandma?" Lilymon says, "Yes, it's me Lily." Lily goes, "But I saw District Attorneymon kill you." Lilymon says, "You're back home now, Lily, back to 2045." Lewis looks over and says, "District Attorneymon?" Lily goes, "Yes, Attorneymon in his Omega level form." Ken asks, "How did you survive? The odds of surviving an attack from an Omega digimon are close to nil, yet he did not destroy you." Lily goes, "Let me explain....." She lays out all the events that happened to her, and the future Lilymon told her about. Bonnie goes, "All that happened, just because you disappeared. I'm not one to accept preordained destiny, but that is just weird." Sirenamon says, "Believe it, sister. Hey, Lily, why don't you prove it to them?" Lily goes, "I'm not sure, but I may be able to do again." She strains as hard as she can, her power level rising and her hair blowing in the air, but finally, she stops. "I'm just tired. It's like, I know I can do it, but it's like I can't remember how to use it or I can't control it yet." Lilymon says, "Lily, maybe you should wash up and take a nap. Maybe you'll feel better and maybe then you can use it." Lily goes, "That does sound good." She walks upstairs to the bathroom, and removes her clothes. As she showers, she thinks, "I know you're in me power, but why now do you want to be stubborn? I'm finally aware of you, but now you've become shy."

As she showers, a car drives up. Ryo goes, "Mommy!!" Tentomon goes, "Hey Junko, what a pleasant surprise!!" Junko asks, "Where's your grandparents?" Ryo says, "Nanny Sora had to have her jaw fixed, and grandpa took her to the Mayo Clinic." Junko goes, "Okay..... Isn't the Mayo Clinic a tad bit overkill?" Lewis goes, "Nah.... It's just enough kill." Junko goes, "Huh?" Araiya comments, "Don't worry yourself over it. You're talking to the guy used five gallons of gas to torch a shirt, then said he that needed to put more on it after being blasted into the wall." Junko goes, "Well, didn't you hear the news?" Araiya, "Well, not lately." Junko says, "Downtown Tokyo is cleaned up, and they're letting people return home. I wonder why you... haven't.... heard...." She looks on as she sees Araiya run inside and a minute later come running out with her luggage, then grabs Yamato and drags him out, followed by Gabumon and Andromon. "Hallelujah, free at last!!" Yamato goes, "Aren't we forgetting something?" Araiya, "You're right!! My purse!!" She runs in and takes her purse. Araiya yells, "Hasta la vista, Lewis!!" and then she gives him the bird as her tires screech on the pavement. Junko goes, "I wonder how long it'll be before she realizes she forgot Tetsuo." Lewis, "I give her an hour, maybe two." Junko says, "So, anything happen to Ryo?" Lewis, "Well, other than joining the exalted ranks of the Digidestined, no, not really, not much happened." Junko goes, "Okay." Then, it hits her. "What do you mean a Digidestined?! That's your job!!" Lewis goes, "It wasn't my idea, Junko. Gennai kinda had this thing all pre-ordained and stuff." Junko goes, "Oh, if that old geezer was still alive, I'd break his face!! But, like you said, it was pre-ordained. I guess there isn't much I can do accept be a good mom and help him." Ryo goes, "You want to meet Ardillamon?" Moments later, he returns with Ardillamon sitting on his head like Patamon on Takeru. Ardillamon goes, "You must be Ryo's mother. Junko, isn't it?" Junko nods.

Over the course of a few days, many of the kids' parents come, up to January 6th. Lilymon says, "Hey, Keiko, Shihomi and Haru just drove up." Shihomi and Haru are the parents of Keiko, Shihomi is the daughter of Tai and Mimi. Haru is 75% human and 25% Angemon, with blonde hair and metal bosses fused to his chest. Keiko gets up and goes, "Mom, dad!! I missed you two so much!!" They talk about their experiences. Moments later, Tetsuo's mother, Akira Masaki, drives up a psychedelic Volkswagen Bus. The woman looks like she stepped out of a history book on the `60s; bellbottoms, tye-dye shirt, sandals, and a peace sign on the tye-dye headband she's wearing. Lewis goes, "Tetsuo, you sure that's your mom's car..... Wait, nevermind." He sees the license plate `POTMOBIL' and just goes, "Yep. That's her. Say, Tetsuo, did your mom ever tell you that's the same car that my folks drove?" Tetsuo goes, "Well, no, I didn't know that." Zenmon goes, "What the hell?! If she's one of the damn tree-hugging hippies, I'm gonna kick her ass!!" Akira walks up to him. "Mellow out, man. All your bad vibes are making you tense up." She starts massaging his shoulders. Zenmon, "Tetsuo, I take that back. I think I like her. Lower.... That's the spot!!" Just then, a motorcycle races up, and a big leather clad man hops off the hog, with a scrawny woman. Lewis goes over to Yolei. "Say, Yolei, we don't get to talk enough. Why don't we somewhere and talk." He persuades her to follow him to one of the bedrooms. In bursts in the biker. The woman goes, "You could of knocked, Tomokazu." Tomokazu goes, "Shut up, woman. I'll do what I damn well please. Now, one of you find Romi and tell him he's coming home." The man goes roaming around. Ken goes to the woman. "Aya, why are you still with that oaf? I raised you better than this. You can do better for you and Romi." Aya, whom is apparently the daughter of Ken and Yolei, says, "I told you, I love him. That's why I ran off and married him without your permission." Ken goes, "You mean you like to be yelled at and belittled?!" Aya answers, "He's just blowing off steam." Ken retorts, "Blowing off steam. He woos you, then forsakes you once you have a child and controls your every action, and now, he's teaching Romi to be just like him so he can manipulate other women then control them like little pawns on a chessboard. You have PhD's in engineering, biology, and anthropology, and he, a high school drop-out, refuses to let you work, to go out, to have a life." Aya goes, "He provides for us. My job is to take care of kids, cook, and maintain the home." Bonnie gets up and walks over to Aya, then punches her in the gut. Bonnie says, "You're a disgrace to womankind, hell, to humanity, letting him use you as a common servant. You make me sick. You should know better than this. You can do better." Takeru goes, "Bonnie!! Apologize this instant!!" Bonnie goes, "Why should I? The day Tomokazu does it, will anyone be there to say `Sorry?' No. No one will apologize. She needed that wake-up call." She marches upstairs. Tomokazu comes back through with Romi in tow. He shoves Ken out of the way. Tomokazu, "Aya, get your lazy ass over here. We're leaving!!" He speeds off.

Upstairs, Lewis and Yolei start talking. Yolei, "I know you brought me up here because Tomokazu showed up." Lewis goes, "Well, yes I did. I can't afford you two trying to fight in my house. Now, is there anything that worries you?" Yolei goes silent for a moment, then speaks, "Well, Miyako hasn't left her room since Jou died. Every time I pass by the room, I hear sobbing going on, and when I try to go and talk to her, she tells me to go away. I know she lost her love, her husband, but it's like she refuses to move on." Lewis goes, "That is bad. Do you think she has slipped into a depression?" Yolei, "I hope not." Lewis, "We have to do something soon. Not only is what she's doing beyond the healthy limits of mourning, but I haven't heard a peep from her, the food I fix for her is never eaten. We have to snap her out of it before she starves herself, dehydrates, or something worse. Also, if you're right and she hasn't left, then I'm also worried about whether or not she's been too depressed to use the bathroom. I cringe at the thought." Lewis and Yolei go to her room and knock on the door. Miyako yells, "GO AWAY!!" Lewis manages to crack it open slightly. A cold gust blows in his face. He realizes she must have shut the floor vent. To Lewis's horror, she was so depressed that she laid there thinner, malnourished, and had soiled the floor. She shivered as she wept, almost totally nude, clenching her funeral dress in her left hand, ripped up. It looked like she had tried to make a noose out of it, but it ripped. Lewis goes, "This.... This is bad." Yolei goes, "What do we do?" Lewis goes, "She's beyond our help. Yolei, I'm afraid that you may have to commit her, for her own safety. In her state of mind, she poses a threat to herself." Yolei goes, "I can't just throw her in a mental hospital." Lewis goes, "If you love her, and you want her to live and get well, you will do it." Yolei thinks on it, and says, "Poor Miyako. She just can't move on and let Jou live on in her heart. Yes, Lewis, I love her. I want to see her get better." Lewis, "Then I guess we should do this then." He walks in, and again Miyako screams at him to get out. Lewis exclaims, "Didn't want to do this, but..." He puts the sleeperhold on Miyako. "I am so glad Agent Vicks taught me that. Now, you get a wet rag and soap. I'll get one of my bathrobes." Moments later, Yolei washes her in a sponge bath and dries her, then Lewis returns with a white robe, but the tab on the neck clearly says, `Property of Ramada Inn.' Yolei looks down at the others. "Lewis, I don't think I can go through with this, especially with everyone watching. I mean, both me and my mirai-sister will be laughingstocks." Lewis goes, "What's your problem. She needs help.... Oh, okay, for your dignity." Lewis starts to focus.

"Hyper Centuriosapien Teleport!!"

They appear in a mental institution in Tokyo. The receptionist jumps and shouts, "Great googly-moogly!! Where'd you three come from?" Lewis goes, "Hi, I'm Lewis Wick, and this is Yolei Inoue. We're here to have Mrs. Miyako Inoue committed and put on a suicide watch." The receptionist asks, "ID?" They hand over their driver's licenses and she scans them, then asks for thumbprints, and scans them. "Yup, you guys are Lewis Wick and Yolei Inoue. You're wondering why the security. Well, in the past we had a lot of punks come in and take some guy they find and have them institutionalized as a frat prank, or sometimes known felons would try to bust their loony partners out, or there is the possibility of another `Yukio Crisis,' so now we require your license and thumbprint before I talk to you. Now, why do you say Mrs. Miyako needs therapy?" Yolei goes, "Earlier in the week, she lost her husband, Jou Kido. Then Lewis' granddaughter Lily went missing, and Miyako's granddaughter Masato looked for and for a short time went missing too. Masato returned, but she can't seem to move on with her life and accept Jou is no longer alive. Two or three days was reasonable, but now almost two weeks have passed." The receptionist comments, "So?" Lewis goes, "Well, first off, she hasn't ate a thing and hasn't drank much except for my only bottle of cooking bourbon, and then that was the day after the funeral. Second, we found that has defecated all over the floor, too depressed to just get up and use the bathroom. Third, she shut the air vent, and the room was pretty cool. Fourth, we found her totally nude, and the dress she wore to the funeral ripped and tied up like a makeshift noose. Fifth, the rings under her eyes lead me to believe she hasn't slept this whole week. Also, she refused to let us talk to her. I had to use a sleeperhold on her in order to get her here." The receptionist goes, "Oh dear.... I will have to tell a doctor. This definitely warrants a 72-hour observation period. There's a good chance she'll get the help she needs." She pushes a button, and 2 big orderlies walk up. "Take her to the observation area." Yolei calls out, "Don't worry Miyako. They'll help. Get well soon." Lewis looks at her and says, "Let's go." With a phrase, they disappear.

In one of the new Dominion labs, Metzger returns with the piece of sidewalk. Attorneymon goes, "Excellent, Metzger!! Phase One is ready!! Call Malachimon down here!!" Metzger goes, "It's about time that stupid digimon realized she was evil." He types out a message and sends it. Minutes later, Malachimon walks in. "Good!! It's here!! Now, with the half of the equation, I can make the ultimate weapon!! Extract the DNA from that concrete!!" Metzger's left index extends, and the finger opens, firing a small surgical laser. He grabs the small rock, then lifts the now useless remains and throws it away. He slowly uses the laser to saw off a paper-thin slice of concrete. Then he adds water to it. "Okay, time to start genome extraction. Under an electron microscope, genetic glob untangle themselves and isolate themselves. A divider is lowered into the tank, then protein-laced petri dishes are lowered in. The cells are drawn to the proteins. Attorneymon goes, "Amazing!! They're still alive after all this time!!" Malachimon adds, "Now, start organic regeneration!!" Three tubes are wheeled up and propped up at 60 degree angle. Machine arms go up and down, back and forth, constructing bone. When they finish, needles threaded with a fibrous substance start knitting what look like blood vessels, nerves, and lymph nodes. After the needles stop, proteins and tissues with copies of the cell data flood the tanks, and then slowly take shape as organs and muscles. Small electrical shocks stimulate the muscles and cells, and then a ring moves back and forth emitting ultraviolet rays, the body reacting by growing skin. Finally, hair forms of the head, and one more shock to the body, which jolts him to life. He calls out, "What the..... I'm... alive. I'm alive!!" Metzger goes, "Welcome back to the world of the living, Tamiko." Attorneymon goes, "We took the liberty of changing your brainwaves a little, as to make you quite a bit braver than you used to be." Metzger goes, "Yes, a chickenshit like you was not what the Dominion needed, but we need you for a greater plan, so we made you brave." Tamiko goes, "Dominion?" Metzger slaps his forehead. Attorneymon explains to him, "Listen, moron, those damn Digidestined killed Obliviomon. Our main goal here in the Dominion as of now is revive Neo Apocalymon. We can't do that if the Digidestined interfere. Now, in order to complete our plans, we needed to revive you and your Agumon so it can Jogress with Metzger's Gabumon to form the ultimate warrior. I'll explain the rest later. Now though, get ready." A similar process occurred in the other two tubes. Out pop an Agumon and a Gabumon. Thanatomon goes, "Now, Terravolve them, then Jogress!!" Both Metzger and Tamiko hold out their evil digivices and their digimon max out. Attorneymon, "Yes!! Now, bring them together!!" The two glowing bodies collide into one another. Thanatomon goes, "Now, to boost his power levels!!" He holds Malachimon's arm up, but then the arm starts twitching. The real Malachimon says, "No, you will not do this!!" She starts trying to push her arm down. Suddenly, the ring starts frying Malachimon with black lightning. She falls to her knees, and Thanatomon regains control. "Will she ever give up?!" He raises the arm again, and this time shoots evil power into the entity. The entity begins to take shape. The being stands at about 18 feet. His head was like that of a wolf-man, but had mostly dark grey fur with crimson red around the mouth and down the front of his neck, a very short snout and four ears, along with 2 mohawk-like rows of dark grey feather-like growths (Like Garurumon and Weregarurumon have) on top of his head down the back of his neck. On the back of his neck between the rows of feathers are three giant bone spikes. The crimson red continues down the front of him, the rest in dark grey fur. His legs were digitigrade, with a giant bone spike on his heels and three on his knees. On his elbows yet another spike protrudes out, and three more on the outside edge of his forearms. On his right hand, his claws turn into Malevicite ore and grow to two feet long. A human skull appeared on his right shoulder, and a Wargreymon style dual-shield appears on his left shoulder. Baldrics materialize to hold them on. On his pecs and upper chest area, armor resembling Paladingreymon materializes on him. The same style rib armor lowers down from the inside of the chestpiece. Malleable rubber-like substance surrounds his lower torso down to his hips, and a groin plate appeared. Metalgarurumon-like armor appears on his upper legs. On his right arm four rings appeared, each separated by the spikes in his arm. In the void between the rings, the same black malleable rubber sits. From the fourth ring on his wrist, more rubber appears and connects to a small cannon that was still forming on top of his hand. From the skull dangles a sheet of chain mail down to his elbow. On his left arm, he receives a bracer with a hole for his arm spikes. Giant plates line the front of the creature's neck, with small rings wrapping around to the back. Around him a wireframe comes together and forms a cape with hood. It fastens together in the center of the chestplate with a pentagram pin. Behind his top set of ears, six black metal beams protrude. On his right side a scabbard appears, and in his left hand is a broad sword with the blade coming out of what looks like Paladingreymon's helmet. He opens his eyes, and they glow a bright menacing red.

Attorneymon looks at it and exclaims, "I can't believe it worked!! He's an Omega digimon too!! He'll crush those puny saps for sure!!" Metzger goes, "I agree with you there, but my question is, what the hell do we call it?" The digimon looks down, chuckles, and says with one voice, "I am the Dark Paladin Yuumei Omnimon." Metzger goes, "Yuumei Omnimon. What a peculiar name. Yuumei means `Light & Dark.'" Attorneymon goes, "Before he sees some action, let's test his skills. If he meets my high demands, then we shall use him. Dark Paladin. Never heard of such a thing."

One week later, Yumi, and the Tai and Mimi of the other world returned home. Life seemed to calm back down. Lily, Masato, Bonnie, and Sakiko still lived with Lewis and Lilymon. Masato was there because her parents and the rest of her family was trying to help Miyako get better, and were almost never home. Bonnie was there because her mom had to stay in the witness protection program since her ex-husband Benjamin was also linked to hundreds of other hacking groups, and frankly, there was nowhere else for her to go. Also stuck with Lewis was Sirenamon and Biyomon. Kai wasn't about to let any ole' digimon in his home, and Sora asked Biyomon to stay there. Living with Iori, Tetsuo, Zenmon, and Tetsuo's mom Akira was Daisuke, Veemon, and Tentomon. That morning Lewis wakes up and thinks, "Okay Lewis. This isn't so bad. I lived with 7 women in my house before. I can do it again." Two hours later, "So much perfume, and hair spray.... Eyes burning....." In the master bathroom, Lilymon, Sakiko, and Sirenamon are wearing bathrobes and doing their hair. Sakiko goes, "Just because we save the world doesn't mean we can't look good too." Sirenamon, "Right on, Sakiko. That damn smog of the future dried my hair out. Man, I need a facial." Lilymon goes, "You know what we need?" Sakiko and Sirenamon both say, "A massage table and a masseuse?!" Lilymon goes, "Right!!" Lewis goes, "They won't be done anytime soon. Besides, my turn to fix breakfast." He goes into the kitchen and opens the supermarket freezer door second from the left, opens a carton of eggs, and tries to pull one out, when it explodes. Lewis goes, "Well, those eggs aren't edible. Strange, the eggs only explode when I handle them." He chucks that carton in the trash. "Here we go!! Fresh eggs!!" He takes then over to a pan, raises the eggs over his head, and proceeds in smashing them into the pan, and instead of a simple crack, the shell shatters and sprays him like shrapnel. "Only to me." He turns on the oven, and moments later, grease showers upon him. "Screw you, grease!! I hope you're happy!!" More splatters on him. "No, you hear me!! You go to hell!! You go to hell and you die!!" In the bathroom, Sirenamon goes, "What's his problem? I never hear him yell like that when he does lunch or supper." Lilymon goes, "Nothing. It's just his way of making breakfast. He doesn't like to do it. But when he goes for some sort of automatic weapon to kill the frying pan, you know you're getting some good. Only problem with his methodology is that I lose more frying pans that way." Lewis yells, "That's it!! I warned you!! Behold my wrath!!" From his weapons room, he grabs an OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon).

Lily was still in bed this morning asleep, dreaming about a better future, when suddenly a voice called to her in her dreams. It was Malachimon. "This prison.... without walls. The mind of my father is sick. He wants to break me." Lily goes, "Wait, why is Malachimon in my dreams?" Malachite suddenly walks through the crowd of people in Lily's dream. Malachimon goes, "You can hear me too?" Lily asks, "Hear you.... Wait, I was told about how Sakiko could hear you in her dreams when I was in the future, but how is it I'm also experiencing this?" Malachimon answers, "Well, I know I seeked Sakiko out, but this, this is coincidence. My warden is still asleep. He occupies my body, sent here by my father Obliviomon in the form of the Red Ring to carry out his wishes to prepare for the vernal equinox." Lily asks her, "What happens on the vernal equinox?" Malachimon goes, "I'm not sure, but they talk about Obliviomon finally being able to complete his mission. I don't know what that means yet." A moment of silence. "So you dream of this too." Lily's attention had wandered for a moment. "A better world." Lily goes, "Yes, I do, but fate always seems to want to make this nothing more than a pipe dream, but then there's that whole Megami prophecy. I mean, I can help fight evil, but this is saying that I will help release a goddess that will save the world. I mean, being Digidestined is one thing. This, this is something far too great to ask of a kid like me." Malachimon responds, "My advise is don't worry about it too much. Don't worry over what they said. For now, just be Lily Fallon. When the time comes, it comes." Lily says, "I know, it's just hard to put it out of my mind anymore. I mean, the first part, the legendary digimon, has come true, but by some stroke of irony, that digimon and me are one in the same." Malachimon answers, "Legends and prophecies are fickled like that." Lily giggles a little. "You know, you're right. You can't always literally interpret these things by their exact words. Lewis told me Gennai was always mistelling legends and forgetting parts. Maybe it could be a tad bit off, maybe it can be exactly right, or even wrong altogether. Maybe I should just relax some." Malachimon, "Who knows? You may even be the Megami. Damn, he's waking up." She suddenly vanishes from the dream world. Lily suddenly remembers what Thanatomon said just before he fell into the moat. "YOU are the Megami!!" Lily, "Why would he say that?" Suddenly she is thrusted into consciousness by the sounds of automatic gunfire. Freaked out and totally scared, she leaps out of bed (Literally!!), crashes into the wall face first, falls over, smacks the back of her head on her bed's baseboard, and lies on the ground stunned. "Ow.... Maybe I should have that bed moved...... I'm just going to lay here a few more minutes...." More gunfire startles her to her feet. "Eeeekkkkkk!!! Where's that coming from!!" She frenetically moves around in one spot, then runs out of her room, and finally she stops and calms down when she figures it out. "Oh. Granddad's making eggs again. I'm going to get dressed." Obscenities fill the house as Lewis goes medieval on the frying pan's ass, and grease still splatters him. He goes outside and gives the pan a damn good thrashing, then arms the grenade launcher on the OICW and blasts the pan into the sidewalk. "That's right. Taste the come-up-ance!!" Across the street, an old couple sits in bed, when the old man shoots up, but his wife reassures, "Honey, the neighbor's husband is making eggs again. Go back to sleep." Lilymon is in the kitchen, wearing a purple tanktop and khakis, looking out the window at him. "At least this time he had the foresight to REMOVE the eggs first. Last time he made eggs I was spitting buckshot out of my mouth for an hour." Sirenamon sits across from her wearing a green sleeved white half shirt and a sleeveless fleece jacket. "Is he like this EVERY TIME he makes eggs?" Lilymon answers, "Well, he doesn't like to use cooking oil. I'm with him on that, because it is forever splattering on you, no matter how well you protect yourself, but then it always comes to some point where he snaps and takes it out on the frying pan. When he reaches that point… Yeah, it is a tad bit overkill, but it gives me a great excuse to go shopping!!" Sirenamon goes, "Hey, this is the first time we girls have been together without a guy present, not counting Lewis. Let's talk." Lilymon looks at the ensemble and asks, "Where did I see that shirt before? I remember I bought something like that for Hikari, but I never saw her wear it." Sirenamon blinks, then says, "Well, I did find it in the room Hikari and Takeru stayed in, and it was collecting dust, so I figured `what the hey' and took it." Bonnie enters the doorway and answers, "You're as bad as Lewis." She stands there in her standard black leather gothic fare, including black fingernails. Sirenamon asks, "How do you move with all that leather on?" Bonnie goes, "If you wear it enough, you just know how." She walks over to the table. "By the way, something I was wondering… Wouldn't you bake under the sun with all that black on?" Bonnie goes, "Not really. The sun is so revolting." Sakiko sits across from her. "You're just weird." Bonnie goes, "Look who's talking, Don Doi." Sakiko replies, "Hey, just because I'm a Yakuza Syndicate mob boss doesn't mean I'm not a normal girl too, you know." Lily walks in wearing the outfit she got from the future. Sakiko continues, "We all got our quirks. I mean, I control the black market in the Greater Tokyo area. Lewis is a frequent practitioner of mass overkill. Lilymon is afraid of salad shooters. You are a former hacker and dark gothic recluse that hates the sun. See, we got our quirks, so piss off!!" Bonnie stares widely at her. "No one's ever talked to me like that… About damn time!!" Masato enters, bewildered. "What just happened?" Sakiko goes, "I just gave Bonnie the proverbial bitch slap during a conservation over quirks and she enjoyed it." Masato stands there a moment, then shrugs her shoulders and answers, "I've heard weirder." Biyomon goes, "Yeah. Quirks aren't something to be laughed. I mean, if you were Lily, you have the task of releasing a goddess and just now found out she's more than she thought." Lily snaps. "Dammit, I didn't ask for this!! What guru made this prophecy!! I'm tired of hearing about it!!" Suddenly she opens a gate to the Digital World and storms through it. Lilymon goes, "But she didn't mean anything…." Sakiko goes, "Come back… Wait, where are you going?" As quickly as the portal opened, it closed. Bonnie goes, "Now look what you did." Lewis walks in with a steaming gun. "I showed that pan. Oh, before I forget, we need another frying pan. Say, where's Lily?" Lilymon goes, "I don't know why, but she left for the Digital World in a tirade." Lewis answers, "Well, I hope she comes back soon…" He starts eating Lily's breakfast. "…Her breakfast is getting all cold and eaten." Bonnie looks at him. "Like, aren't you the least bit worried?" Blinking twice slowly at the end of the sentence. Lewis mentions, "No worries. She's heading off to the one group of folk that can answer this question…" Lily is walking up a grassy knoll… "The Four Holy Beasts." Bonnie looks cock-eyed at him. "Uh, you know this, how?!" Lewis goes, "Know that kick-ass jacket of hers? Well, I put a temporal-spatial tracking device on it. I figure if she vanished again that I wasn't about to go hunting for her with absolutely no clue where to start. Right now she's at the lake where the others met Qinglongmon. Makes me wonder… Did we ever dismantle that whole Holy Stone set?" Lilymon goes, "I don't think so…" Lewis, "Oh, nothing. It's just that feeling I get whenever a clever plan of mine comes back to bite me in the ass later on down the road."

At the lake, Lily stands and calls out, "Oh, Holy Beasts hear me……" The wind blows, and silence. She looks around. "Uh, Holy Beasts, hear my plight…" More silence. She picks up a rock and throws it at the sky above the lake. "Dammit, I said listen to me!!" The rock flies through a vortex and a gravelly British voice calls out, "Agh, dammit, that really hurt!!" Lily goes, "That's what you get for not paying attention." The voice goes, "Well, how would you like it if I threw rocks at you and then make snide remarks at your misfortune?" Lily answers, "Well, if you Holy Beasts had been listening in the first place and had come down from your palace, then maybe I wouldn't have to throw rocks at you then, now would I?" The voice goes, "Holy Beasts? There's no Holy Beasts here. I'm just a disembodied voice from another dimension. Yeah, congratulations, missy, you just found the gateway to another universe, but you can't come in at the moment, because, see, we're full." Lily is ticked. "If you're the new universe you say you are, which I seriously doubt, first off, how do you breathe if the universe has reached maximum capacity, and why do you have a floating palace in this universe?" A voice much like John Cleese goes, "Baihumon, you old chap, she sees the palace. I don't think that whole full universe gag is going to work this time." Baihumon goes, "Damn. You know what's odd?" The voice goes, "What?" The gravelly voice goes, "I think this is the first mortal that actually sees the palace besides us." The second voice, "Well, there was that Gennai chap. The bloody bastard even boarded us to talk with Qinglongmon. Boy was that a scare. I thought we were being invaded." The gravelly voice asks, "Well, what now?" The other voice goes, "Well, now you go outside and talk to her, or you could just give her a damn good thrashing." The gravelly voiced one moans, and then, about a minute later, a giant white tiger with a blue mask on his head, 12 digicores around his waist, and a big lump on his head, descends from… nowhere. Lily goes, "Let me guess. Baihumon, is it?" He goes, "Yeah, and you're the sod that hit me with the rock." He throws back at her and misses, but as she evades the rock, he sees the mark of Sincerity on her jacket, and her digivices, he stopped. "You're Lily Fallon, the fabled one of the Megami prophecies." He bows (However a four-legged beast would go about doing it) to her. Lily asks, "Okay, who's the yahoo that made the prophecy?" Baihumon goes, "Why, the very two who began all things digital and digimon, Raitomera and Kurakami." Lily goes, "Raitomera and Kurakami… Never heard of them." Baihumon goes, "Not even the eight million kami that make up `The Powers That Be' really know them well." Lily goes, "Wait, Hikari has told me about the Powers That Be before, and that they are bodiless digital god-spirits." Baihumon goes, "Right. Even the first good digimon needed an origin. They are supposedly the very ones who did that. We always thought they were a myth until we discovered what that temple on File Island was. It was the very first structure ever made, depicting two gods, Raitomera, which translated from your Japanese is `Light Burning,' and Kurakami, or `Dark God.' May I point out first that Kurakami was not evil in the slightest. Just because someone was called `dark' does not necessarily mean they are evil. Well, it was they who made that prophecy, some 5 billion years ago." Lily goes, "So, they said I'd do this some 5 billion years ago. Why?" Baihumon goes, "Well, I'm not sure. I'm not sure why prophecies are made at all. Knowing the future only gives further motive to want to change it." Lily looks at him. "Well, that was no help. Who is this `Megami' supposed to be?" Baihumon goes, "No one knows. Some say it is the reincarnation of Raitomera, some the very first First Terra, others think that one of the kami will gain a body. Personally, I believe that she resides right here." He points to her heart. "That is all I can tell you. I must go now. The location of this palace must remain secret, and someone nears." He walks back, and rises back into what seems to be blue sky. From the forest walks… Arachnemon, now all dressed in blue, covered with a grey trench coat, approaches, and heads toward the giant fake `Holy Stone' and the soup pit, which has nearly been enclaved by this lake. What sounds like mindless gibberish came from her, before she stopped before it. "He was silly on the ring. He just fell in. Then we met humans, then red cloud sent me away, but you came back, then went away. Every time you were here big brother, it was lots of fun. I wonder when you'll be back. Look at the flowers…" Lily looks and goes, "What the? Arachnemon? She sounds like she's out of it." Her eyes had a glazed vacant look to them. She rolls in the grass in the flowers. Lily goes, "Her mind…… She's lost it. She's so innocent now, like a child." Arachnemon looks up at her. "Hello!! Who are you? You here to play in the flowers too?" Lily goes, "What are you doing here?" Arachnemon rolls over on her stomach and sits up. "Well, Sora-hologram-person had to go. She said she had to do… main-ten-ence on herself. I went and played in the field, but then this scary wolf came out and chased me. I ran as fast as I could, and then he lost, but then, I was lost. I tried to find a way back to Sora person, but then I find a road. I followed it, and it seemed so familiar, then I wound up here at this stone, then I met you." Lily thinks, "Her mind has regressed to like that of a young child. Guess she couldn't handle losing Ramon." She looks at a white flower and strokes one of its petals. "Pretty flower…" Unknowing, in the bushes awaits Fenrirmon, watching her.

In the conference area of the throne room aboard the Dominion's space station, Attorneymon speaks. "Well, as we all know, our beloved leader Malachimon has gone just plain psycho, and her first officer went with her, and Safiirumon and his Valkyries, and War Vamdemon, that Chris guy, and Evamon are as dead as Scott Baio's acting career, but this isn't the point I am raising." Rina sits there and says, "No shit." Attorneymon goes, "Eh… Exactly. I couldn't of said it better myself. This means two things people. One, we're in charge now, but will the masses accept this radical change?" Rina goes, "Uh, hell no." Attorneymon, "Right, so thanks to an undisclosed associate, I got my hands on one of these; a Red Ring!!" Rina stares jadedly, "So?" Attorneymon continues, "Well, like the Red Gem you have come to learn of, it blocks out the host's brainwaves, but unlike the predecessor, this one begins to overwrite the original waves through neutral shock and synaptic augmentation, programmable suggestibility, or just a good old fashion possession, and guess who the test subject is." Thanatomon walks out. Jormungamon goes, "That's not who I expected." Attorneymon goes, "Ever hear of a digimon called `Thanatomon?'" Chatting and murmuring begin. "Well, he's the possessor. With him in her body, we can Malachimon as a puppet to power!!" Everyone cheers. "Now, before we dance on the Digidestined graves, we need to follow a few steps to secure our power. Steps one and two I have already started. Step one was to make the supreme killing machine from digimon of the former Anti-Digidestined, dubbed Yuumei Omnimon. The second is happening as we speak. As you know, 41 years ago, a digimon with the ability to take on a human form known as Arachnemon seeked to annihilate these Holy Stones. Today, we know the whole Holy Stone legend was total crap written up by a Mr. Wick as a type of `Wag the Dog' scheme to keep the then newbie Digidestined from getting involved in their mess with the Overlords of Chaos, but she believed it so much that she kept on fighting anyway. You also know very well her hair possessed the power to make Dark Towers into digimon. Well, after her zealousness and loyalty nearly got her destroyed, I had thought she was dead. What I came to find out was that Mummymon, her `brother,' had carried her away and saved her. You will all know Mummymon better as the Sun God Digimon Ramon. Before he was deleted, she was revived, but because of the damage dealt to her by her creator, he was forced to extract fragmented digital data, making her completely human, or so we thought. Although she is human, her hair still retains that very power to bring Dark Towers to life. I have sent Fenrirmon after her to abduct her so we can harvest her hair." Heramon asks, "And of what good will this hair be without Dark Towers and the knowledge to build them?" Attorneymon goes, "Here, you're wrong. All prison cells we possess contain a fragment of Dark Tower in their ceilings, but with a microscope, you can detect small golden parts. These are a prototype for the Gold Tower, a tower that drains power. This knowledge came from Ramon, a device he had envisioned but had lacked the technology to make, which I then took, but never thought I would need it. The Red Gems work in a similar fashion to the Dark Tower, but can also control humans. With her, we can make new replacements for the traitors that left us, and we already did the math. As you know, a Perfect takes 10 Towers. A Mega takes 100. Now, a Giga requires 1000 Towers. To make a Terra, you need 10,000 Towers. Even as we speak, those Towers are being made…." Rina interrupts, "That's all nice and all, but might I point out you're boring the hell out of us with this long-winded speech, so just get to the point already?!" Attorneymon looks at her with an annoyed expression. "My point is that we nab her and use her hair to make armies of cannon-fodder grunts to overrun the cities, and powerful Tower digimon to deal with those Digidestined. Now, on to point three…" Rina yells, "Aw, dammit!!" Attorneymon goes, "Okay, well, my point is that we know that they will fight digimon without mercy since they know they'll only reconfigure in Primary or Secondary Village, as so shown by the resilient re-emergence of Etemon. Humans, on the other hand, don't come back, unless you're a cheating bitch that monkeys with time, so whenever you require troops, draw upon the human regiments. Trust me, their `morals' will keep them from wasting a fellow human." Neo Spheremon answers, "Devious, isn't it?" Attorneymon says, "Now, Metzger, ready Yuumei Omnimon!! The first wave begins now!!"

Back at the field, Arachnemon stares in fascination at the flowers when Fenrirmon makes his move. "Attorneymon shall have you!!" Lily looks and yells, "What the, Fenrirmon?!" He pounces on Arachnemon, but then looks up at her. Fenrirmon goes, "Wait a second… Boss said you were gone." Lily goes, "You're wrong, and so is he." Fenrirmon goes, "I have no time to deal with you now. Besides, something weird will happen if I did try. I got my orders." He grabs Arachnemon and begins to run. Lily yells, "Get back here!!" She starts straining. She thinks, "Why can't I tap you now?" He vanishes into the woods. Lily sighs, "He's just too fast in that forest. There's no way I could chase him, and even if I did, what then? I can't seem to access that power I had in the future. Maybe there is something wrong with me. Maybe I'm going at it wrong. I guess I could see Gomamon. I bet he'd understand. I mean, he knows all about digivolving and he isn't enthralled in this whole `Megami' deal. I only hope they don't hurt her."

A day passes, and Lily has reached Topoza, the town where Laomon and Gomamon moved into in order to continue Gennai and Mai's work in Laomon's old home. Gomamon, "Wires are connected, LAN boards installed, test boot ready." Laomon hits a few buttons, and a massive supercomputer comes online. Laomon calls out, "The supernetwork is operational!! I knew we could move these computers and re-activate them. All of Gennai's stuff is back in working order." Suddenly they heard a wrapping, a wrapping at their chamber door… It was Lily. Gomamon goes, "Lily?! What are you doing here?" Lily goes, "I think there is something wrong with me. Masato, Yuuji, Lotusmon, and Sirenamon can tell you vibrantly that I showed a great power in the future, but now, I can't seem to draw on it. I need to know why I can't use it now." Gomamon goes, "This could be quite hard. I'm not quite sure how to answer that." Laomon goes, "But maybe we can help."

At Iori's temple, Tetsuo was back from school. Tetsuo thinks, "What is with sensei? Every time I ask why he did not attend the funeral, he dodges the question or tells me it isn't wise to question him. It's like he refuses to acknowledge he ever existed." He enters the main structure and goes, "Hi, mom!! I'm home." An old voice calls out, "Who is that?" Akira answers the voice, "Oh, that's Tetsuo, my son." The voice goes, "Son eh, and let me guess, he's also a student here." Akira responds, "Why yes he is." Tetsuo runs up to the second floor room where they are talking. In it is a very old looking man. Akira asks him, "You want some of my `herbal' tea?" The man looked at it, the odd green tea, and then received a whiff of it, reeking of cannabis. "Uh, no." She looks at him, then goes, "Okay." She drinks her cupful. She then sees Tetsuo. "Oh, hi Tetsuo. This is Iori's grandfather. He's 116 and still up and kicking. Amazing…"

As the day progresses, things seem normal, until… The TV goes, "We interrupt this program for a special report." Sirenamon sits on the couch with a box of Kleenexes and shouts, "Stupid special reports always come on at the best parts." Lilymon passes by and goes, "Did they just say special report?" Sirenamon, "Uh huh…" The TV goes, "Just when we thought the Dominion attacks were over, a new attack has begun in the Digital World, on Fort Wick, a base many know as the first American base stationed in the other world and has had problems in the past with weapons mysteriously vanishing from their bunkers, including a multibillion dollar laser network that went AWOL without a trace…"

Outside, Lewis stands. "So Lilymon wants me to trim these wild onions that have been growing. No problem." He pulls out a remote and pushes a button, causing a series of small lasers on tracks to pop and cut the grass evenly without damaging the flowerbeds, fences, or cars. "Best thing the Pentagon ever did for me, damn tightasses. Well, I'm done."

Back inside, the TV continues, "This new wave does not seem to show the same empathy towards their targets that the last wave had. Some intelligence reports say that the original leader was overthrown in a battle over the ocean where known Digidestined Jou Kido lost his life in an atomic blast that ended the fight. Okay, my cameraman is telling me to hurry up and get to the damn point. Well, the Dominion is attacking Fort Wick, but this time, they are doing so with but one digimon, neither which CIA nor the United States military can identify in their databases. So far, nothing has so far on this monster. Hold on…. No, Haiako, my grammar does not suck shit, nor does anyone care what the hell you think!! Excuse me…. No weapon can seem to faze him. President Coleman is about to speak…" It goes to the pressroom of the White House, where next to the podium sits a stool. A little old man walks out. Lilymon goes, "I knew I lost track of the Presidents, but when did GARY Coleman become president?" Lewis comes in and goes, "Cool!! Gary Coleman is the President!!"

Downtown, in the middle school computer lab, Bonnie and some computer club nerds watch the broadcast via live web broadcast. One of the nerds go, "Well, people like Gary Coleman, and when your opponent is the grandson of General Tavick, people would elect an inanimate carbon rod before they'd elect him. How he made past the primaries will forever be one of life's unsolved mysteries." Bonnie reaches behind her and whacks the nerd upside the face, knocking him down and breaking his glasses. "I deserved that." Bonnie goes, "Quiet, the midget's speaking."

In the pressroom, President Coleman speaks, "My fellow Americans, it would seem that the threat of the Dominion, not long ago believed to be gone, has now returned, and maybe stronger than ever. We must ready ourselves for anything, and I assure you we have this under control." Outside the room, a mostly naked (Still has his undies on) old Tom Green run around screaming, "We're all gonna die!! It's the end of the world!!" He runs up to the podium and says, "Oh no, the big bad digimon is coming to get us, and there's nothing we can do!! We must flee in terror!!" President Coleman goes, "Could you guys quietly remove the Vice President from here?" Secret Service agents walk over and sleeper hold him, and then carry him out. The reporters just stare blankly. "Uh, questions?" One reporter goes, "Do you know what you are doing, because to me it doesn't sound like you know what you are doing?" President Coleman goes, "Whatchu talkin' `bout I don't know what I'm doing? Course I know what I'm doing." The reporter adds, "Well, I mean, Lewis Wick would have came up with an idea by now, carried it out, and kicked some serious ass by now." President Coleman looks pissed, "Do I look like a guy in his mid 20's that carries a seventy-five foot long sword? Uh, no. This doesn't mean we aren't working on a plan to take care of this situation as we speak." Over the intercom, a man goes, "Uh, Mr. President, Fort Wick just fell." Another reporter asks, "Are you bluffing? Was the Vice President right?" The President stares blankly, and then lowers his head. "Yeah, we're screwed. Any other questions?"

Bonnie slaps her forehead. "I got to stop this travesty." She starts typing away, accessing various White House files, and then finishes the sequence with one key. Suddenly, a flat screen lowers down next to the President, and on it Bonnie showed up. "What the?" Bonnie exclaims, "I'm Bonnie Winchester, sitting over here in Tokyo. You might know me as the brat whose father was Benjamin Franklin Pierce…" The reporters start mumbling. One says, "I didn't know Alan Alda had a daughter…" Bonnie looks with an anime sweatdrop. "Why does everyone mention Alan Alda when I say that name?" One of the nerds in the room goes, "Well, Alan Alda played an army doctor of the same name on the television series M*A*S*H, which aired from 1972 to 1983." Bonnie goes, "Did I ask for your opinion? Besides, Benjamin's old man couldn't stand M*A*S*H, so that can't be it, but that's not the point. Now, feeble-minded reporters, listen, and speak when I say you can speak, and this way we can avoid another of these misunderstandings. Now, first off, no more talking about Alan Alda, period. Back to my point…" President Coleman looks at her and asks, "Okay, then why the hell are you on a secure government line? Wait… Benjamin Franklin Pierce Winchester, the hacker god that could break into ANYTHING. What do you want? Did your dad put you up to this? What, in this time of crisis, he wants to hold the nation hostage and then wants me to pardon him, then he screws us out of our dough… again." Bonnie becomes cross. "Nice one. Wonder why didn't I think of that, but no. He has nothing to do with this. See, this is why I said to listen until I said you can speak, because when you don't you start to assume, and as we all know, assumption is the mother of all f***-ups. Now, this time, listen. Time is not a luxury now." She waits for silence. "Okay, now, Mr. Midget, uh, Mr. President, why don't you call up the only folks who can handle this? WE know how to handle this, and all it'll cost you are those outrageous long-distance fees. You know you wanna call Mr. Yagami." The president answers her, "Listen, I've already reviewed this issue with the Joint Chiefs during the first Dominion scare. We do not want to be dependant on them all our lives and enter into what has dubbed `The Townsville Scenario.' We have to learn how to do this ourselves, because one day, they won't be here to save us, and then what? We already possess technology made in the Wick administration that can combat even low-level Terra digimon, and recently upgraded this technology." Bonnie seems as though she was not listening as she typed, then she went paler than usual for a moment, then looked up. "Ever considered that what you're up against is an Omega? You know, Omega as in `Obliviomon' Omega, the thing that wiped out 120 million people in 10 seconds, scarred the face of the world forever, wiped out Houston with a flick of his wrist, and produced more power from his little finger than the sun has put out in the last millennia. If you don't believe me, look at this yourself. I bet your Defense Department already knew this." She shows the file for Yuumei Omnimon on the screen. "If you say you don't need our help on this, then something is wrong with you. Do what you want, and I don't know about my friends, and I know I have no chance to beat this by myself, but I'm going to see what I can do, whether you like it or not." The screen goes black.

"Meramon, let's go!!" she yells. From the hall, Meramon puts down an asbestos mop and comes with her. "Digiport Open!!" In they went, watched by the startled nerds and geeks.

"THE SHARD OF TRUTH!!"

"Meramon Terravolve to Apollomon, The Real Sun God!!"

Quickly, five of the other nine assemble. Lily and Tetsuo still had no knowledge of the attacks, Romi was kept home by order of father, and Yuuji was not able to leave for Kai's vigilant eye kept him from leaving. In Iori's temple, Tetsuo, Akira, and Iori's grandfather sat. Tetsuo asks, "Well, I know people ask you enough how you've lived so long, so I will not bother you about it…" Iori's grandfather goes, "Well, good living, tai chi, good food, calm nerves, and so much damn prune juice that you can clean out the bowels of a whole f***in' army is my ticket, but you could always do like Dick Clark, but I wouldn't recommend it." Tetsuo blinks. "Okay…" Gramps interrupts again, "I don't like that Dick Clark. It's not everyday you live to be 120 something, not the least bit senile, does nothing really special, and look just the same as you did 80 years earlier, then showing it off with your New Year's specials. I still say he sold his soul for immortality." Zenmon interjects, "Amen!!" "Now what was it you wanted to know?" Tetsuo asks, "Well, that's nice to know, but what I wanted to know is that do you know why Iori does not want to talk about Jou or the funeral?" Iori's grandfather says, "Iori and Jou were close friends. It was Jou's guidance that led him down his path. Jou was a key part in his life, as was myself. His solace, brooding, and his wanting to be alone more seems normal, but dodging the issue that bothers him is not sound. It will lead him down a dark path. He must learn to open up and realize that he is gone from this physical plane. We could help, but he must travel this road alone." Akira goes, "Oh, so he's in denial… I got something to mellow him out." Everyone else yells, "NO!!" She goes, "Okay… I'll go check my herbs." She walks out, preceded by a silence. About twenty seconds later, Tetsuo yells to Zenmon, "Hey, I thought you said you took her grow lamps from her." Zenmon, still sitting in a chair reading the news on the Internet, answers, "Yeah, like four f***in' months ago. Besides, it's not my damn problem, but this is… Special Report, strange new digimon annihilates Fort Wick, on the move, believed to come from the Dominion." He waits a moment. "That's your cue, oh kemosabe." Tetsuo comes in with a murasame on his back. "Could we tone down the profanity here when we get back?" Zenmon goes, "Screw you." Iori's grandfather exclaims, "I would, but being obnoxious helps calm my nerves." Tetsuo mentions, "Damn, he's got good hearing for a 114 year old man. Great, now you two got me started. Let's go!!" They enter the port.

Over at Taichi's apartment, he goes, "Oh, this is bad. There is no way they can handle an Omega on their own. We should know. We got to do something." Mimi goes, "Well, Bonnie can be wrong. Maybe it's a new type immune to the weapons developed 40 years ago. Maybe it wears a new armor." Taichi goes, "I don't like it. I think this won't end until we get involved." Mimi shakes her head. "No way. They have to start to stand on their own. We can't always be there. Besides, Sora, you, and me made a promise eighteen years ago never to take it that far ever again. I'm sorry. I know they'll find their way. Now, I have to get to physical therapy. Hopefully, I can ditch this blasted wheelchair by next week." She wheels out the door. Shortly after, the TV shows the devastation done. "No, Mimi, not this time. They must learn, but to stand out this time will sentence them to death. Only one thing could this kind of destruction, and only one thing can stop it." Agumon exclaims, "No, you can't do it. It's sealed in that private vault with the others, and even if you could get it, it'd kill you." Taichi goes, "I know. It's a risk I have to take. Sorry Mimi, Sora, I have to break the promise." He turns off the TV and grabs the phone. Agumon queries, "What are you doing?" Taichi goes, "Getting the one person who can help now. Hello, Lewis?"

Lewis answers on his cell phone. "I already anticipated your whim. Lilymon is retrieving Bonnie and I'm driving to you as we speak." Taichi asks, "How? How did you know?" Lewis goes, "Simple. You're the type that can't sit back and do nothing, Mimi doubts his power, and besides the fact that Mimi and Sora are out of action, you know they will not back out of the promise without due reason, and you need someone who can break you into the vault where they are held." Taichi answers, "Well, you hit the nail on the head." Lewis says, "You observe a person's personality long and hard enough, you learn how they think, and you can anticipate many, but not all, of their moves. I'll be damned, I'm already here." He hangs up. Taichi grabs a knapsack and heads for the door, and when he opens the door, Lewis is already waiting for him." Lewis goes, "Oh, you'll want to grab something that looks valuable. We need an alibi in order to slip in." Agumon asks, "Why not just teleport in?" Lewis responds, "No can do, little buddy. See, not only is that place wired with security measures, guards, and cameras, but it also has state-of-the-art energy sensors, designed to sense explosions, energy blasts, and teleportation takes a lot more concentration, focus, and sheer energy than you think. Reassembling your body atom by atom takes more energy than all the power plants in Northern Asia, so there would be a good chance they'd notice something. Now, you throw in security locks designed by Koushiro-san himself, internal wall-mounted turrets, and all the aforementioned precautions, and the results for you are not all sunshine and lollipops, if you get my drift." Taichi utters, "I get the strange impression you've tried this before." Lewis goes, "Well, I have thought of it before, repeat, thought of it before. I can't stand the thought of a place I can't get access to." Agumon asks, "Well, after what you said, how are we going to do this?" Lewis goes, "This is where Bonnie factors in. See, these systems haven't been updated in 15 years. She can play god with the security measures, except the retina and fingerprint scans, which will be the parts that will take some time. Now, let's roll."

In the Digital World, the others are deep in a forest, and about a mile ahead of them are Bonnie and Apollomon, nearing the monstrosity. Bonnie yells, "Attack now!!" Apollomon nods. As he prepares, he sees Safiirumon and a few of the Valkyries trying to buy some time, but losing all the same. Bonnie yells, "We'll take it from here!!"

"Fusion Rings!!"

They strike the left arm of Yuumei Omnimon, but he is not hurt. In fact, he doesn't even realize he was hit. Bonnie goes, "Nothing." Safiirumon yells, "Pull back!! There's nothing else we can do!!" The Valkyries flee into the brush with Vulcan Lilymon bringing up the rear.

"Hydroponic Shower!!"

The shot itself shoves Yuumei Omnimon back, but Tamiko is thrown off and hits the ground, knocked out from the fall. Vulcan Lilymon looks back to see him there, ignored by Metzger. "I have to get him out of the way." Yuumei Omnimon stops sliding, and starts moving back, oblivious to the fact Tamiko is not at his side. In fact, as he approaches, he nearly steps on him when Vulcan Lilymon swoops in and snatches him up. Yuumei Omnimon asks, "Master, what of Tamiko?" Metzger answers him with, "What of him? He's served his purpose. He's of no more use to me… Oh, if you're that worried he'll leak information, I'll take care of that." He draws a 9mm Glock and loads his arm-mounted grenade launcher, unloads a whole clip at the two, then fires a grenade at them, blowing up below her, and sparking a chain of gas leaking from various jeeps, amplifying the blast. "I can't see any movement, nor can I spot any heat signatures. I do believe I got them. Now, shall we get back to the job at hand?" Metzger retorts. Yuumei Omnimon nods. Bushidomon takes Tetsuo's WCEDI, and the barrels on the back open up. All five of his elemental forces draw forth to each of the five barrels, and begin to spin up. As they begin, translucent domes of various colors appeared in front of Bushidomon.

"Meikaku Cannon!!"

Various projectiles flew out of the barrels in a hellstorm of elementals, striking Yuumei Omnimon in the chest, but bouncing off his armor. Sakiko watches this event, mentioning, "That's not supposed to happen!!" Tetsuo says, "Anything that lives can die too, so don't worry." Bonnie goes, "The same applies to us, shaolin man, or have you forgotten that?" Tetsuo goes, "Well, you spoiled an optimistic mood. Can't you ever see the glass as half full?" Bonnie ridicules, "What's with you people and half full glasses? While you sit there and stare at a glass, I'm going to do something more important, like save the day, and that bullcrap." Bushidomon is still shooting, sweat pouring down his pale blue face, when Yuumei Omnimon swings down with his sword, but is stopped by the five barriers before him. Bonnie says, "Well, that's one thing going for us." Bushidomon goes, "Well, now that we had a fine discussion on the logic of half full glasses, I'd love some backup." Yuumei Omnimon keeps hacking at the barrier. Bonnie goes, "Alright!! Okay!! One heroic but ultimately futile attack coming right up!!" Keiko goes, "I agree with Tetsuo. Stop looking at this like the glass is half empty." Bonnie screams, "Enough with the damn half full glasses nobody gives a rat's ass about!!" Keiko backs off. "Okay… Don't blow your top there… Uh, attack?" Alcyaid Xaviomon steps up first.

"Quartz Lasers!!"

The beams strike across his chest and face, causing some explosions, but it doesn't stop him. "Eat this!!" Alcyaid Xaviomon calls out.

"Neo-Tek Tomahawk!!"

The axe screams across the air, striking Yuumei Omnimon's cape, and shattering. Keiko strafes him.

"Photosynthesis Ray!!"

The shot makes no real impact on him as he continues to hack at the barrier. Michaeamon flies up next.

"Consecrating Jab!!"

He draws back and connects, but his fist stops dead on Yuumei Omnimon's jaw. Michaeamon's eyes tear up as he hovers in place, his fist still in the monster's jaw. Suddenly, he screams out in great pain and holds his hand. Metzger grits his teeth as he listens to the archangel's cries of agony. "Yuumei, would you shut him up, for good?" Yuumei Omnimon responds, "But, master, what of the barrier?" Metzger's answer, "It'll still be there when you get done." He stops striking the barrier and looks right at Michaeamon. Ryo calls to him, "Get away!!" Alas, his words were too late, for the massive dark paladin deftly jabs him in return, annihilating his armor upon contact, and then sending him through four trees at mach speed, sending enormous splinters and stakes of wood through his back, his wings broken as he shattered through them, and on hitting the ground left wing first, a messy snap as the impact rips out the wing before he skids for a quarter mile. He lies on the ground, eyes blank, silent. Metzger yells at Yuumei Omnimon, "Dammit, I said to kill him!!" Yuumei Omnimon observes the archangel as everyone backs up to him, including Bushidomon. "I would, but now he's guarded by the barrier. I knew the barrier was a greater priority. I'm not the simpleton that is Vamdemon, nor am I as gullible as Malachimon. I know that which I am doing."

Bonnie gestures to Valkyrie Lotusmon, "So far, your attack has done the most to him. Let's see if we can soften him up." Masato goes, "Guess you heard oh fearless leader…" Keiko rushes up, "Hey, I thought we worked out the whole chain of command thing a long time ago?!" Bonnie goes, "Well, I was here first, and then you guys showed up, but no one took charge, so I took that liberty, and until now, you didn't mind. I know I'm not leader material, but somebody has to." Ryo goes, "But…" Bonnie goes, "Lily is an able leader, this I have learned, but as we have witnessed before, things fell apart without her, and when the time comes, can we take charge on our own?"

"Europa Crescent Crash!!"

Yuumei Omnimon shields himself as the assault shoves him back.

"Hydroponic Shower!!"

Again, he slides back. Keiko watches him. "Strange. The Omega digimon my grandparents speak of could just laugh off such attacks and kill her before she could blink. What is different about Valkyrie Lotusmon?" Valkyrie Lotusmon holds many lotus leaves between her in the fashion one would hold shurikens.

"Midnight Lotus!!"

The lotuses strike Yuumei Omnimon and all around him. After her barrage, she takes one more and throws it at him. Slowly he turns to get out of defensive stance, and is struck under his left eye, and against all odds, breaks the skin. Slowly, he pulls the three that struck him out, finishing with the one under his eye, starting a trickling of blood, but then the latent power of the leaves take effect. The first caused an explosion on his armor. The second entangled him in wild ivy, but the third was the most interesting. The third leaf encased him in a 10,000x gravity field. "Get up, already, you lazy bum!!" Yuumei Omnimon shudders as he tries to move. "I'm trying… I can't get up!! I'm so… heavy!!"

Keiko thinks, "That's odd. That gravity field seems to be able to hold him." Metzger thinks, "This is embarrassing. How could she do this? Wait!!" Keiko thinks, "No one knows what effects a Lunar digimon would have on an Omega. A Lunar digimon has never fought an Omega digimon before, and no one knows what the Lunar elemental is…" Metzger completes the thought, "…Since the Lunar element is basically chance and randomness with some gravity and energy draining powers thrown in, meaning Time and Light digimon are especially prone to this power, and he is part Garurumon…" Keiko, "…Not to mention the fact that he looks like some sort of…" Metzger, "Dark Paladin? What is it? Yuumei. It means `light and dark,' so does it mean he uses both light and darkness powers like Malachimon does? Well, it doesn't matter now. These are questions for later. Right now it would seem I see what is going on. It looks like that Bushidomon is drawing power straight from the planet, since I saw five barriers when he first started, which I believe are Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Light, and he fused them into one über-barrier. Well, let's not be out staged. Let's show him we can draw too." He looks at Yuumei Omnimon. "Yuumei, use your Ætherspace Flux to bust this barrier, then listen to my every word!!" Yuumei Omnimon opens his eyes.

"Ætherspace Flux!!"

All went dark except for the trees and ground as the stars rushed by overhead. Around Yuumei Omnimon, a tear in hyperspace open, with white beams of lights radiating out and through him, slowing to a crawl outside 20 feet of him, and the slowed light surrounded him in a sphere. The sky returned to blue as the sphere faded, to show him free of his gravitational bondage and a red pulsating glow outlining him, his armor, his sword, and his cloak. Metzger calls, "Now, don't use an arcane elemental attack. Try your Shadow Flare!!" Bonnie blinks once. "Something tells me that we should scatter." Yuumei Omnimon then performs various gesturing with his arms, before raising his left arm into the sky."

"Shadow Flare!!"

A gold beam leaves his hand and rises into the sky, into space, and hits the surface of the sun, creating a vortex of plasma. Solar flares radiate off the corona. Massive sunspots form in the area from a general cooling effect the vortex is having. The spots are drawn into the mix. Slowly, the beam leaves his hand, splitting into three, one stopping on Bushidomon, another on Apollomon, and the third on Valkyrie Lotusmon. A white flash lights the sky as the beam breaks contact with the sun, the end a mass of many dark flames surrounding one big flame. In a twinkle of light as it enters the atmosphere, the mass splits into three and follow the three beams. Over the three illuminated digimon, red circular targeting crosshairs appear, centering in on them, then turning green when the lock on. Bushidomon starts running, but the light and the crosshairs follow him. "We are so screwed!!" He stops, and gets ready to defend himself, as does Valkyrie Lotusmon and Apollomon, when from nowhere, another beam begins striking the dark plasma, first sparing Valkyrie Lotusmon, then Bushidomon is saved just in time, but Apollomon is pummeled into the ground by the shockwave, and reverts back to Candmon. In the blinding interim, someone rushes up. Bonnie asks herself, "Is that Paladin Lilymon? I'll be damned, it is!!" Paladin Lilymon holds her right hand up and squints, and spots Bonnie. Bonnie asks, "What are you doing here?" Paladin Lilymon goes, "No time. I'll explain it on the way. Your skills are needed elsewhere." Bonnie goes, "Huh?" Before any more could be said, she grabs Bonnie and Candmon, and takes off, when Yuumei Omnimon spots her. "An uninvited guest always crashes the party." He swings at her, and she flies back, but the tip of one of his claws nears her neck, and hits her amulet, striking the gem and breaking a piece off. Quickly, she flies away from the field of battle to the others waiting.

Not far from the battle, Safiirumon and the Valkyries have regrouped clear from the battle. Metal Lilymon goes, "I wish there was something we could do…" Safiirumon shakes his head and answers, "This is beyond our capabilities. If anyone can handle this… thing… it's them." A moment of quiet passes, when Tomoemon asks, "Where's Vulcan Lilymon? I thought she brought up the rear. You don't think…" Raijin Lilymon explains, "I remember she turned back for a reason, then she disappeared." Siva Lilymon crosses her arms and says, "Well, we all know she was never the bright one." The other Valkyries give her a stern look. Safiirumon goes, "Spread out and look for her, but don't get too close to the fight, and stay in pairs. We don't want to lose any more of you out there." They move out in search of her.

Just out of sight from where they stood, northwest of Yuumei Omnimon's location, near the burning Fort Wick, Vulcan Lilymon and Tamiko lay on the burning forest floor, Tamiko regaining consciousness first. "That incompetent… I'm his leader. You don't blow your leaders up. When I get back over there, I'm going to kick his ass proper!!" He stands up and tries to walk, when he falls back down after putting weight on his left leg. "Well, I'm going to get a big damn crutch here, and then I'm going back over there, and I'm going to beat your ass with my big damn crutch!! Dammit, where's a tree limb when you need one!! Hack… Hack… Stupid smoke." Vulcan Lilymon wakes up. "But I can't eat another baby back rib… I can't see!! I'm blind!! Wait, never mind. It's just smoke." Tamiko goes, "So Einstein wakes up at last!! After I beat the crap out of Metzger, I'm going to have you shot for causing all this to me!!" Vulcan Lilymon yells, "Well, if I didn't grab you when I did, you would landed head first and probably died." Tamiko, "Well, you got me there. Maybe I won't have you shot by a firing squad then, but you're still my prisoner. Now that I think about it, it's that Vulcan Lilymon that deserves the firing squad. It's her fault I fell off in the first place." Vulcan Lilymon walks out through the smoke. "I'm YOUR prisoner? Doubtful. You have no way of detaining me, and with that bum leg, you aren't going anywhere unless it's over my shoulder…" Tamiko, "Sure… You're one to talk. I mean, skinned shoulders, tattered wings, and enough shrapnel in your arms and back to make a buck at a recycling center… Blah… Hack… Damn smoke!!" Vulcan Lilymon replies, "Maybe we should get out of this smoke." Tamiko smacks his chest with the side of his hand idiotically and exclaims, "Duh… Ya think? I swear, you Fire types are dimmer than blondes. Hack… Hack… Cough… Why are you still standing here? Wheeze…" She stares blankly for a moment. Quietly, she utters, "Strange. It seems familiar, like in another life, in a time long forgotten." Tamiko begins to lose consciousness as his lungs asphyxiate in the smoke. She kneels down and tries to move her arm to nudge him, but her wounds and the shrapnel make them nearly impossible to move. She yells to him, "Taichi, wake up!!" He groggily comes back around. "What the hell? Never mind…" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Come on. We have to get out here. You put your arm around my neck and put some of your weight on me. Now, walk with me." Tamiko grins and weakly answers, "You know I won't be your prisoner." Vulcan Lilymon tells him, "That doesn't matter now." They walk from the area.

Lewis stands in an alley with Taichi and Agumon near a giant heavily secured facility. "Don't you just love it when poorly mapped out plans made up at the last minute just come together?" Agumon remarks, "Well, maybe, if the plan was to actually BEGIN!!" Paladin Lilymon and Bonnie finally arrive, Bonnie carrying a small bag of supplies. Bonnie goes, "It's best you get out of here, Lilymon. The fewer there are of us, the more stealth we'll have. Besides, like you explained, we're only after one four-pound object. It's not like we're knocking over Fort Knox, and you would very quickly stand out." Taichi adds, "Yeah, she's right. It's best you go." Paladin Lilymon stares blankly for a moment, then nods. "I'll see if I can find Lily." She walks down the alley. Agumon asks, "Okay, now what's the plan?" Lewis remarks, "Why the hell you asking me? Ask her. It's her plan." Agumon and Taichi do an animé fall. Bonnie explains, "Well, as already mentioned, teleportation and high energy tactics are right out. The first thing we must do is disable the cameras." Agumon goes, "Why don't we just walk on in, and work from the inside? I mean, Taichi, even if you can't remove it, you still have a right to be in there." Lewis, "Well, we could, but it was Sora's idea to put in a `No Lewis' clause, in Paragraph 2, Section 8, where if I set foot in the building, even with one of them, they get to shoot me with tranquilizer darts on sight. Koushiro got her to add it just in case I ever got the idea. Man, those darts really hurt, too!!" Bonnie goes, "You've done this before, haven't you?" Lewis, "Well, four or five times. Those security guys are good!! I just don't like the idea of something I can't get into. Nothing is foolproof." Lewis looks at the backpack. "I got an idea." Bonnie explains, "Now that I have all the facts, here's the plan. Taichi will carry the backpack, which will contain Lewis. I will pose as a cousin to Taichi, and this will allow me to accompany him through security, and at the X-ray machine, Agumon will try to get their attention, and I'll hack the machine remotely through this microcomputer here disguised as a cell phone. See, only the 1 and 0 keys work, and it already has an X-ray program installed. My dad used it all the time to get past airport security. Now, for the metal detectors, because we got to get the laptop past it, Lewis will hold it in this lead case, blocking the magnetic field with which a metal detector works by. Past the detector, there is a 7-foot stretch where there are no cameras, but plenty of guards at the two doors to watch us, and this will be the trickiest part. Lewis will have to hand me the laptop before we get to the next room without them noticing. If we can past this point, the hardest part is for the most part is over. Lewis sleeperholds the guard in the next room quickly, while I tap the camera line and doctor the feed. Boom, we're past the third door. Doors four and five are the pains. Something may seem off if we take too long, so as a back-up, at door four Lewis will weld the grates open and hurl these smoke bombs into the ventilation shafts, and in the belief that there is a fire, the building will most likely be evacuated. This won't give me very long to hack the retina, fingerprint, and voice locks in place. That will be a bitch. As soon as I do so, grab the Nexus, the then emptied smoke bombs, and haul ass out of there in the confusion. Now, questions? Let's go." Lewis stands in the backpack, and balls up so it can be closed, and takes the laptop. Taichi puts the backpack on, and they walk in. At the X-ray machine, Agumon begins to ask pointless bogus questions to the operator as Lewis passes through. The guard goes, "You're clean." Through the metal detector they went, again clean. As they walk in the hall, she reaches to scratch her head, and they make the exchange. Bonnie scoots in closer to Taichi, keeping the laptop from sight. After they enter the room, Bonnie uses Taichi to hide from the sight of the camera as she enters the program. Lewis jumps out and knocks out the guard. The program causes a small camera snow, and then it loops back to before they entered. Inside the fourth chamber, Bonnie goes, "Man, I'm glad those were older model cameras. Those new ones can only receive live feed, or they send out an alert." Lewis chucks the smoke bombs. Bonnie, "Now, the hard part. Taichi, you can unlock your locks without me. The other two I'll have to handle." Taichi walks up, and places his index finger on a panel and his eye to a small window. A computer voice answers, "Taichi Yagami finger and retina prints recognized and acknowledged. Give voice sample." A speaker extends out from the wall, and he says his name. "Voice print accepted. Lock disabled." Some tungsten locking pins are heard unlocking. Bonnie starts typing away rapidly. She then puts on a rubber glove and a silver contact lens. "Sora Izumi finger and retina prints recognized and acknowledged. Give voice sample." She types away, then, from the computer comes a recording. "Voice print accepted. Lock disabled." More tungsten pins can be heard retracting. Suddenly, before Bonnie can start typing, they hear, "Mimi Yagami finger and retina prints recognized and acknowledged. Give voice sample." Agumon goes, "That was fast. A lot faster than Sora's locks." Bonnie answers, "But I didn't do anything." Taichi opens his eyes big as he looks as the panel. "No way." Lewis leans over, and speaks with Mimi's voice, "Mimi Yagami." The computer goes, "Voice print accepted. Lock disabled. Motion sensors disabled. Pressure sensitive floor disabled. Audio sensors disabled. Access granted." Still using Mimi's voice, Lewis says, "Why did you think I only needed you and her to get in. You forget we once shared the same body, and beyond all odds, we have the same fingerprints, irises, we share personality quirks, and I can even do her voice to perfection. Hah ha ha ha ha!!!! Why do you think I never secure my valuables the same way you secure these Nexuses? Mimi can do the exact same thing to me, and Lilymon can too!!" Taichi goes, "How long were you going to keep this from us?" Lewis answers, still in the same voice, "Oh, I don't know." Bonnie says, "I hate to interrupt, but first, stop doing that Lewis. That's just weird. Also, we can talk later. Let's get what we came for." They run in and snag the Power Nexus of Honor and slip it in the backpack, and Bonnie's laptop in as well. Lewis snags the smoke bomb canisters, and chucks them in as well. Taichi grabs the unconscious guard and drags him out. As soon as he clears the threshold and clear of the sensors, Lewis teleports away with Bonnie. A fireman asks, "What happened?" Taichi answers, "Well, I wanted to deposit something into my personal vault, but then some ninja dude came with these high tech gizmos, trying to get in. He used smoke bombs to cover his tracks. This guard fought him off though, and he crawled back into the vents." The awakening guard goes, "I did?" The security guard captain yells, "Do a perimeter search!! Find this man!!" The captain asks, "Can you describe the person?" Suddenly, his EDI beeps, and he receives a message from Bonnie. "Help!! Hurry!! We can't hold him anymore!! Anyone!!" Taichi grins slyly and goes, "Uh, duty calls… Bye!!" A half-mile away, Bonnie and Lewis sit on a rooftop. "Convincing!!" Bonnie smiles. Lewis asks, "You record Taichi's records?" Bonnie nods and hands him a disc. He puts it in his coat pocket and smirks. He yells, "The unbreakable fortress… I have broken you!!" He holds out his hand and does a victory `V' pointing at the facility. Bonnie looks down, as though in regret. "I said I'd never do something like this again, yet, here I am." Lewis looks at her and lifts her head up. "Trust me. You did the right thing this time. You knew you couldn't hold on forever against something the likes of Yuumei Omnimon. You did it to help your friends, the worlds, everyone. I still don't see what Mimi had against it." Bonnie goes, "I guess you're right. I mean, we weren't doing that hot anyway. We don't have the power to face an Omega. You guys do. Nothing is foolproof." Lewis goes, "It all depends on the fool."

Rushing into the Digital World, Taichi and Agumon run. Yuumei Omnimon is lost in the billowing smoke. "You can't use this smoke and forest to hide forever. Eventually, you must come out to face me." Metzger goes, "You've been looking through this smoke for five minutes now. Why don't you just BLOW IT AWAY!! Geez, sometimes I think fusing with that Agumon may have dropped your IQ 50 points." Outside the forest, Keiko goes, "He's right. Eventually, he will find us, and we will have to fight. Guess we should give him what he wants…" Tetsuo stops her. "Wait. Not just yet. Something isn't right." Yuumei Omnimon goes, "Take cover, Metzger. I'm going to get rid of the smoke." He draws his sword. The blade changes somehow, distorting the very fabric of space. Metzger sees this and climbs under Yuumei Omnimon's cloak. "Oh, shit!! Is that blade made of anti-matter?!"

"Anti-Matter Tear!!"

Around his sword, atomic particles are exploding into nothingness, releasing great amounts of atomic power, and tearing up existence itself around him. He slashes all around, then strikes a tree. Time stops for a moment as space around him is ripped from existence. Trees, ground, air, light, everything starts shattering like glass. Air and ground alike begin to implode upon the location, reacting to the blast, stifling its range of destruction. Time suddenly returns to normal. Masato looks at her digivice. "Guys, you won't believe this, but this says that the Digital World just shrank in size by 8 ten thousandths of a percent." Andromon says, "It was to be expected. He was using an anti-matter based attack, and when matter and anti-matter collide, they cancel out each other. In space, that would have been an explosion rivaling that of a small supernova, but here, in a dense area of matter, matter collapsed around him." Yuumei Omnimon approaches. "Exactly what I was going to say." He swings his sword down, when a shout calls his attention." Taichi stands 100 feet from the others and shouts, "Picking on the weak… Sick!! If you must fight someone, fight an equal!!" Yuumei Omnimon laughs, "Is that it? I'm not impressed." Metzger goes, "Ignore him." Taichi, "Now, Agumon!!"

"THE SHARD OF HONOR!!"

"Agumon Terravolve to Paladingreymon, Guardian of Honor!!"

Yuumei Omnimon completely ignores Paladingreymon as he prepares to attack. Taichi calls out, "Now, I'm going to make it worth your while, whether you like it or not." He pulls out the Nexus. Yuumei Omnimon turns and looks at the Nexus. "Maybe you are worth my time after all. In war, you can never be cocky." Taichi focuses, and wind draws around him as the Nexus opens.

"OMEGA TERRAVOLVE!!"

"Paladingreymon Omega Terravolve, Avalonmon, Avatar of the Light!!"

Yuumei Omnimon looks at Avalonmon. "I must say I'm impressed. When I first came to be, I didn't know you could do this, but like any true warrior, I studied my foe and learned their true skills, and this is a true surprise. I thought surely you would try to find a way to beat me without it, because those things drain the very life of the owner to power the user. So this is Avalonmon. I hope he has other powers besides his Paladin powers." He rushes Avalonmon, knocks him down, and drives his sword down only centimeters from his facemask. "You let your guard down. I'm disappointed." He moves his sword down to his neck, but then leaps up, lifting Avalonmon by his mask, teetering on the tip of his sword, throwing him over his shoulder into the ground, then, while he is still hooked on his sword, tosses him back overhead and sends him sliding into the ground, making a deep pit. Avalonmon slowly rises up. Yuumei Omnimon raises his left hand.

"Shadow Flare!!"

Avalonmon can only stare at the light beam, as the black flare towards the surface. "Think, Avalonmon, think!!" He runs over and holds Yuumei Omnimon in a full nelson. "Cunning, I dare say, but not enough. Do you think this will change the outcome for you?" Avalonmon goes, "Huh? Of course it is!! I may still be hit, but I'll take you with me!!" Yuumei Omnimon smiles, "Maybe so, but as I said before, cockiness will get you killed." Metzger has a perplexed face. "Did somebody just beat you with a smart stick, or do you just have no common sense?" Yuumei Omnimon goes, "I would say the latter, but that is a conversation for later." He jumps into the air with Avalonmon holding him.

"Ætherspace Flux!!"

Time distorts, and Yuumei slips loose and gets behind by moving through hyperspace. While Avalonmon is still in shock to his disappearance, Yuumei Omnimon drops below and points his wrist cannon at him.

"Duality of Life!!"

The back half of the cannon extends out, revealing a reactor. Two plates atop the rear section lift up, and the inside linings start to glow. On the right plate, on the inside plating is the Yin symbol and it glows white. On the left plate inside is the Yang symbol and it glows black. Both draw light and dark power to the reactor. A sphere of silvery fused light/dark power amasses at the barrelhead. After five seconds of charging, four lasers slide out from the back of the front half and aim red light on Avalonmon's back, and then begin to burn into his armor, moving in a circular fashion, making a ring. The main cannon fires a volatile silver beam into Avalonmon's back, and he unleashes a chilling scream and it shoves him higher, stopping only in time to throw him straight into the Shadow Flare. Metzger comments, "Looks like it'll be one of those fights. I'll wait over here." He slides off Yuumei Omnimon as Avalonmon hits the ground, his capes burned away, the ring area where he was struck gone and bleeding burn on his back, side plates next to his head on the oval collar ring shattered, and his mask cracked in three places. "He's good. This will stop him though!!"

"Pendragon Blaze!!"

He fires the flaming white serpent blast at Yuumei Omnimon, but he stands there as the attack harmless snuffs out upon contact with him. "What are you?" Yuumei Omnimon chuckles. "You forget that a Paladin's Holy and Light attacks cannot hurt another Paladin, and since I am a Paladin, your special moves have no effect on me." A pause, followed by Yuumei Omnimon saying, "But how can I hurt you? Simple. I'm a Dark Paladin, and in addition to having control of both Light and Darkness, I also, unlike you possess many other non-Paladin moves like that Valkyrie Lotusmon has, so compared to me, your power means exactly diddly squat." Avalonmon is startled. "No way… Dark Paladins are impossible. I can hurt you!! You darkness will not escape my wrath!!"

"Lumin Sky!!"

He strikes Yuumei Omnimon with the assault, but nothing happens. Taichi exclaims, "This isn't happening!! No… He really is a Dark Paladin. Science be damned." Yuumei Omnimon draws back with his fist and smashes in the rest of the helmet, pieces raining down to the ground. Avalonmon returns the favor with upward slash with Excalibur, then a downward one into Yuumei Omnimon's right shoulder, shattering the skull plate there, and sending bone and chain mail falling to the ground amongst his helmet remains. Yuumei Omnimon grimaces as blood runs down the edge of the sword and his chest. "It appears you do have an option after all, but against my full power, it would matter none the less." He lashes out with his left arm and whacks Excalibur from Avalonmon's hand and into the air, then pounces up and kicks him in the chest, sending Avalonmon tottering away. Yuumei Omnimon claws on his fingers grow out and look like space.

"Mithril Claws of the Celestial Order!!"

He howls out into the sky, cosmic energy from space drifting to him, then draws his arms out to his sides and begins to dash at him, his right-hand claws leave a white aura trail behind him, and his left-hand claws leaving a black aura trail. In a bang, he pierces the sound barrier. When Avalonmon finally regains his balance, Yuumei Omnimon is already on top of him, and he swings his claws into his torso, throwing sparks all over and leaving white and black gashes in the cuirass. The sonic boom throws Avalonmon over Yuumei Omnimon's head, where he stops on one foot and leaps up, both sets of claws glowing orange hot from the first strike, and hit him in the back, this time causing macroexplosions all over his back. Yuumei Omnimon lands, and his claws retract. Avalonmon returns to terra firma chest first, a sea of obsidium metal leaving him. Slowly, he arises; the armor on his falling off in giant chunks, the chain mail all tattered. Avalonmon thinks, "He's good. Wait, in the corner of my eye… Excalibur!!" He rolls over to it and draws it from the ground. Yuumei Omnimon spots him and prepares another run with his claws. Avalonmon grabs Excalibur and pulls it up, spins, and as Yuumei Omnimon leaps, Avalonmon dices into his chest, throwing some blood around. He lands feet first and stops, his claws retracting. "Damn." The top half of cuirass slides down and to the right, cracks up, and becomes obliterated, revealing the gash. "That was close." He turns towards Avalonmon. "Only a mere fluke though."

"Ætherspace Flux!!"

The Dark Paladin accelerates to near light speed with sword drawn. "What is it he hopes to accomplish? He knows I'd be ready for a third rush." He steps to the side and draws his left arm, and clotheslines him across the chest. "Alley oop!!" He leaps up with Yuumei on his arm, and with a quick flick of his arm, tosses him off. He then flies over Yuumei Omnimon and strikes him with his fist, a kidney punch, placing the Dark Paladin in great anguish as Avalonmon pushes him back to earth on his fist, burning up in friction fireball. Avalonmon lets out a ground-shaking cry as he nears the ground, and pushes even as they hit, releasing a force similar to that of a small nuclear device. Taichi collapses, and is caught by Tetsuo and Keiko. Keiko shouts, "Hold on, grandfather!!" Taichi, all pale and pasty, exclaims, "I forgot how fast they drain you. I don't know how much longer I can last." Metzger smirks, "Odds are, in a few more minutes, you'll go, and so will his power, and Yuumei Omnimon will still be standing, ready to eliminate the rest of you." Masato replies, "I doubt that greatly." Metzger says, "We'll see." Avalonmon draws Excalibur over his head when Yuumei Omnimon surprisingly bounces up and strikes the insides of his lower legs, causing Avalonmon to do a split. Let's just say he isn't ecstatic over it. Yuumei belly flops again, curls his legs in, then put his feet atop Avalonmon's theighs, and pushes up, standing up on his theighs, and holds his sword just like Avalonmon had his moments earlier. All Avalonmon can do at the moment is writhe in pain as he feels tendons pull and rip from the stress.

"Corona Claymore!!"

His sword burns blue, and he rams it into Avalonmon's gut, sending him into hemorrhages and bucking Yuumei Omnimon off. Avalonmon grasps the sword and pulls it out of him, throwing it to the wayside. He takes Excalibur by one arm and smashes the sword into pieces. Very slowly, he waddles at Yuumei Omnimon. "Let me return the favor!!" He drives Excalibur clean through the upper right leg of Yuumei Omnimon. Keiko stares at the carnage. "I'm worried." Sakiko asks, "About what?" Keiko answers, "I worry there will be no victor."

Back in the real world, Yuuji sits in his room at his home. "Why can't dad understand that all digimon aren't all bad? Ever since mom died, he's been weird, nervous, and overprotective. Just because they gave me shelter, he wants to ground me. Oh, if he knew the truth, he'd go crazy. I can't even sneak out if they need my help since the police chief suspended him for 3 weeks without pay for striking Lilymon." Yuuji suddenly hears a sound from his digivices. "It's Keiko. There's trouble?!" Keiko goes, "Well, right now, not so much, but Taichi is losing his life powering Avalonmon to fight Yuumei Omnimon here in the Digital World. Here's the location we're at. Can you get out to help? If Avalonmon falls, we'll need all the help we can spare." Yuuji goes, "I don't know. My dad has grounded me; I can't get to a computer, he watches me like a hawk if I leave my room, and he had our apartment lined in that new magnetic insulation the precincts and other important places use that blocks digiports." Keiko goes, "That must have cost him a fortune. Can you sneak out?" Yuuji goes to leave his room, when Kai barks, "Where are you going? You already put yourself in enough danger!! Now stay in your room." Yuuji answers, "Uh, no." Keiko shakes her head. "I don't like this." The message system turns off. Yuuji kicks his bed in anger, but then starts hopping in pain.

Over the skies of the Digital World, Paladin Lilymon searches the skies. "I must thank Lewis for giving me his EDI. This will help cut down the search time a great deal. Now, if I can just find her signal. Wait a moment…" She detects three signals. "This can't be right. I'm picking up Jou's EDI as well as Lily's digivice and the tracking beacon in her coat!! How?" She flies into the small bustling town filled with black houses and cars. "Gabriel's Fjord. Interesting name…" As she flies overheard, she looks around. "I think I just past 6 funeral parlors already." She soars around and lands near the source, when people and digimon swarm her. "Are you the other missing sister?" This is all she heard. "Missing sister? What are you talking about? I don't have any sister." Gorubi walks up and looks at her. "No people. This isn't Vulcan Lilymon. She isn't the sister." The crowd disperses. Paladin Lilymon asks, "What was that all about?" Gorubi goes, "Well, 25 years ago, there lived two Lilymon sisters. One day, one of them were abducted by Attorneymon and used as his mindless pawn, including leveling this town 10 years later, but now she came back, free from his control, and now when anything that looks like a Lilymon comes into town, people swarm around to ask if she is the other lost sister, who went searching for her. Oh, my name is Gorubi." Paladin Lilymon goes, "Okay, why did you say I wasn't Vulcan Lilymon… Wait, is Vulcan Lilymon that sister?" Gorubi goes, "Why yes!!" She notices Jou's EDI on his belt. "Where did you get this?" Gorubi answers, "Well, about two weeks ago, there was a big flash in the sky, and I was playing on one of the hills, when I found this all destroyed on the ground. I took it home, and my dad fixed it." She lowers her head. "Oh." She detects Lily's digivice again. "Say, Gorubi, who lives in that house?" Gorubi answers, "Well, you know how I was telling you about the Lilymon sisters, well that's their house. One of them, she's called Laomon, lives there with a Gomamon now, and Shiro, his sister Kiki, and myself visit with her a lot, and just yesterday, some strange girl wearing an outfit like that Trunks guy from Dragonball Z moved in there." Paladin Lilymon goes, "Laomon, and Lily?" Gorubi asks, "Who's Lily?" Paladin Lilymon asks herself, "Why would Lily go to Laomon?"

Inside the house, Lily stares at Shiro with disbelief. "So that's what I am, a demi-human. No wonder everyone was baffled when I was born. I had the genes, yet never showed any traits of it other than my hair and eye color. I mean, this can't be!! Why me? Is it this and this alone the reason why I'm so friggin' important? I mean, there are thousands of others like me in the sea of billions. Why?" An expression of frustration fills her face. Laomon walks in. "I believe this fell into your hands because it is in your blood." Lily goes, "Yes, I know from what he says that I'm some sort of `demi-human,' but what does my blood have to do with anything?" Laomon goes, "You don't know how wrong you are. Ever hear the story of the First Terra?" Lily nods. "What does that have to do with anything?" Laomon goes, "Everything. As you know, they were the warriors that fought Neo Apocalymon over billions of years as life formed, life spread, and life progressed. The last First Terra to exist before the birth of the Internet, or even radio, and the power's revival inside Mimi, was a digimon called Gaiamon. She is known to be the Terra form of your grandmother, Lilymon. Gaiamon was the first of her race, born around the Earth date of around 1874. She fought and died like all those before her, and her race joined the countless other new races of digimon, but much like how man's advent of the telegraph warped this world's flow of time and re-released Neo Apocalymon, this also had an effect on this world. When she died though, it would seem that at around the time, a Mr. Bell was making a little thing called a `telephone.' As you know, this world was not at the time ready for a reaction from yours, whereas it had always been the reverse for ages. The way the cause-effect flow worked at the time was that this world affected yours on a marginal scale, and yours the same. The sweeping changes of the 19th and 20th centuries threw that balance out of whack. Only now has this balance caught up. As I was saying, due to the telephone, it hampered digivolution, and scattered the data and power of Gaiamon to the Lilymon race. Your grandmother was singled out as a Digidestined digimon because she had more of this power than her `siblings,' and then the actions of your grandparents' generation of Chosen Children, the release of Neo Apocalymon, and the dimensional rips in Lewis' old pad and around the world began to set the negative effects right, restoring the First Terra into existence, albeit in Mimi, but that power still exists in your grandmother. I should know. I was made from her. Guess in some ways you can call me your aunt." Lily goes, "That confirms it. I must have the oddest extended family in either world!! What next? Is Malachimon going to marry my dad and I'm going to have an `Aunt Hikari?' Wait, I just had one of those feelings, those feelings Lewis says he has when he says something preposterous, then claims that somehow it'll come back to `bite him in the ass,' and it usually does." Laomon sighs. "Lily, let me finish. I also found Gennai's notes on the whole matter while he was in Serenity. It said:

Gennai speaks:

"Today I discovered an amazing property of one of the digimon chosen to aid the Chosen Children, known as Lilymon. It seems that despite the fact that the unprecedented fusion of the bodies of Mimi Tachikawa and Lilymon, and Mimi Tachikawa becoming the first First Terra in 178,684 years Digital Time, or 124 years in Earth time, she still possesses the very encoding that the preceding First Terras possessed, and it seems to be growing stronger. At this rate, it'll be far superior to that of the average Lilymon by the year 2010, but it seems doubtful it would ever return to its rightful glory."

Laomon continues, "And here's another he wrote just before he went questing, and was killed by Attorneymon…"

"In my first report on the matter, I thought the gene could not exceed the power of the original gene possessed by all First Terra descendants. I was wrong. In all the children that this Lilymon has had, the power has grown, grown well over her maximum, and now has beyond all reason surpassed that of the original gene, which until the fusion, was a dying code in the Lilymon. The power level in all her daughters, even Kate, her pure human child, is beginning to exceed that of the First Terra, especially the child known as Holly. What is causing this I know not, but undoubtedly the reason why Holly is so much greater than her siblings is that she was enhanced by Lucimon's interference, an attempt to form an ultimate weapon against the Digidestined, something powerful but they would refuse to destroy. She is already twice as powerful as her siblings, but because they have never had to fight a day after the death of Obliviomon, they are not aware of such raw mana in them. What would happen if one of them ever had a child, Holly especially? Would she surpass them? I hear rumor of a `Megami Prophecy' in the Palace of the Four Holy Beasts, and her release in the near future, but for some reason will not speak to me on the subject, but what I have overheard, they say a human and a hybrid digimon working together with an immense power shall release this Megami, who will vanquish evil entirely. I must find this digimon before the forces of evil get wind of this. I do this against the wishes of the Four Holy Beasts, and even the `Powers that Be' (Strange beings. I've only gotten to speak to them once, but a I hear a lot about them from the Four Holy Beasts and Hikari, who seem to be the only five besides me to ever earn an audience with them.), whom have said to just let this play out as it is. For once I disagree. Now, if I can just get out of here before Mai starts nagging to me about how silly I've become over the matter. Maybe I'll tell her I'm going out to buy some milk and eggs…"

Lily goes, "Whoa." Laomon says, "And the gene finally went dormant again when it reached its maximum effect in five of her six daughters in 2034, but one was still growing…" Lily interrupts, "My mom…" Laomon continues, "The last time Mai checked your mother before she died, it was already 10,000 times as powerful as the original." Lily goes, "Ten thousand fold?!" Laomon responds, "Yes, but now I want to check you and see whether or not yours is dormant or is growing." Lily goes, "Well, it can't hurt me." Laomon thinks, "I hope not."

They walk towards the attic, where a lab was set up. Inside, Gomamon and Kiki are tinkering with some fluids in test tubes. Gomamon is trying to hold one as Kiki pours something into it. Gomamon exclaims, "Hey, hurry up!! This glass is slick, and I don't have the benefit of thumbs!!" Kiki goes, "I can only pour this so fast, and you don't want this to splash out and ruin this? Just a few more drops." Gomamon comments, "We need more holders, that's just the bottom line. Oops. Catch it!!" He drops the vial when Kiki snags it with the end of her tail. "And when were you going to tell us you could do that?" Kiki goes, "Well, I didn't want to, because it doesn't have any protection, but mainly because if something like this glass tube slipped from my grip, and something dangerous spilled on it or glass flew up into it, I would probably go into shock and pass out, then be sick for a couple of weeks, unless I get infected, then it could be over three months before I recover." Gomamon, "You're pulling my leg." Kiki shakes her head. "No, I'm not. I don't know why, but any other part of my body can be hurt, and I heal just fine, like anyone else, if not a little faster, but if something happens to my tail, it's like my immune system, everything, just shuts down. I go into shock, and sometimes have seizures if it gets hurt, then it takes weeks to fully heal, and during then I feel weak and nauseated, and look all sweaty and pale, like I'm about to die, but no one ever believes me when I tell them about it. They always think I'm faking or have the flu, even after what happened when I was four, when my dad dropped a knife by accident and nearly cut it off. I was in a hospital for over a year, and the whole time they thought I still had an infection, an infection that had left my system after three months in intensive care!!" Gomamon goes, "Doesn't anyone think that a little odd?" Kiki, "I know. Please don't ask me to do anything like this ever again." Gomamon answers, "You may just stumbled onto something here that could keep someone like you and many Tailmon from wrongfully dying at the hands of baffled doctors, not to mention win us a Nobel Prize. I'll just need your cooperation." Kiki looks angry. "You want to use me as a guinea pig?!" Gomamon shakes his hands back and forth with eyes closed. "I don't mean that, per say. It's just that if you do this, no one like you will ever have to suffer like you did when you were four." Her look of anger slowly drifts to calm surrender. "I guess… I can't be selfish. What now?" Gomamon goes, "I need you to… You can put the test tube down now." She looks all over and finds an old tongue depressor box to stand it up in. "Tell me your height." Kiki goes, "I'm 4' 7"." Gomamon goes, "Now, I need you to remove your shirt and unbutton your pants." Kiki is shocked. "I'm surprised at you!!" Gomamon goes, "Stop rushing to assumptions. Because of density and stretching, clothes can throw off measurements. Now I'm going to measure your spine and tail, as reference information. As soon as I finish, you can button up and lower your shirt." Kiki acknowledges, "Oh, alright." She does so with an annoyed sigh. Gomamon starts by threading a measuring tape through the top of her jeans' tail hole and down her tail, which is lying on the table. He finally reaches the end. "Geez, this thing alone is over a foot longer than you, about… 6 feet exactly. Now, as for your spine…" He approaches with the measuring tape when Lily and Laomon walk in. Lily asks, "We interrupting something, because if we are…" Laomon has a stern look. "What are you doing you two?" Gomamon grins nervously with his left hand behind his head. "Er, nothing. See, I can explain…" Kiki goes, "It's okay, Laomon. We were working on that experiment to see if human blood can safely interact with digital blood in a transfusion, and we ran out of holders, so Gomamon agreed to hold the tube, but he dropped it, and then I grabbed it with my tail. He asked why I don't do it more, and then I told him about how I'm afraid to get it hurt because I get sick when it does, and now he's studying me to find out why this happens, because I'm tired of people thinking I'm lying when I hurt my tail and then get weak." Laomon goes, "Intriguing. I guess that blood research may just wait… But first, let's do what I came back here for." Lily goes, "What's with the secret laboratory?" Laomon goes, "Well, after I came to my senses, I found a lot of notes in the old lab of Evamon. I looked over his work and decided to keep it, figuring that it'd be best to see why he was so fervent over genetics, and then I found more in Gennai's old home, and after Gomamon and myself moved the whole operation back here and cleaned the attic, we made this lab to test some of these theories, which contradicted many things said in Dr. Kuojin's `Anatomae Digital.' So far, three of Evamon's ideas have been right, seven of Gennai's theories, and two of Mai's, and two times the doc was right. Besides, I'm not big into the whole `handing out advice in riddles' and `making bullshit prophecies' thing. Now, could you walk over here and remove all metal and metallic objects from your upper body?" Lily removes her belts, her digivice, her jacket, and her pendant. "Now stand right here while I give you this neodymium injection. This is going to light up your digital portions brighter Las Vegas." She stands on a floor panel, sweating nervously, ready to cry. "If you're that nervous, hold my hand." Laomon injects her full of the magnetic substance as she screams, holding Laomon's left hand; the sound of bones popping fills the air. Laomon falls to her knees. She looks like she is ready to cry now as she staggers to some controls. "Now hold still, because if you move, this is going to hurt like hell." She then mutters, "I think she dislocated three of my carpals!! Damn, she squeezes hard!!"

Outside, Paladin Lilymon hears Lily scream. "Oh, my little Lily!!" She runs towards the house and kicks down the door. Shiro goes, "Lady, you could just knock." She grabs him by the shirt and asks gruffly, "Where is she?" Shiro starts to cry. "You're scaring me!!" Paladin Lilymon yells, "WHERE!!!" Shiro points upstairs. "She went into the lab with Laomon. Go to the second floor and climb the winding stairs to a door!! Don't hurt me…" She throws him to the floor and flies up to the door. Shiro runs over to the phone. "Help!! 911!! There's a mad digimon reeking havoc here!! She smashed down the door and threatened me and ass-aulted me, and is upstairs now!! Hurry!!"

Upstairs, Laomon works on the scans. "About 10 more seconds… You hear something?" From behind the door, everyone hears, "Palatial Flower Cannon!!" Kiki, shirt pulled back down and all, asks blankly, "Should I run for cover and quiver in terror now?" Gomamon goes, "Yes. Yes you should. I too shall now run for cover and quiver in terror." They scream like little schoolgirls and run to the left of the room. The blast surges through the door, the room, blasts out the back wall, shaking the whole house, frying a tree outside, destroys the new bronze statue of Stefan in Town Square just moved into place, rips the roof off a store near the edge of town, blasts a hole clean through one of small mountains, and hits the ocean, causing a 2039 foot high mega-tsunami, but luckily for the people of Gabriel's Fjord, the mountains and cliff block most of the deadly wave's force, but the rock shower from the blast hitting the mountain destroy parked cars and grasslands outside the city. Kiki says, "I think she's angry." Paladin Lilymon yells at the top of her lungs, "BITCH!!" Laomon looks over and goes, "What's with strangers and not knocking… Oh, hi, uh, Lilymon?" Paladin Lilymon's chest is heaving from her deep breathing. "What did you do to her, you f****** bitch?! If you have hurt her, I will rip out your eyeballs and ram them down your mouth and make you eat them, then impale you on an iron spike and mount you to the hood of my husband's car, then coat you in honey so the hornets and insects can devour your accursed skin!!" Lily goes, "Calm down, grandma. I'm right here. All she did was give me a neodymium injection so she can examine aspects of my digital nature, and you know I don't like shots." The anger quickly subsides from Paladin Lilymon, and a warm `squeeze me, I'm cute' look and smile appear. "Okay. I was so worried." Kiki sits in the back corner. "That was scary. I think I wet myself." Gomamon goes, "No, that's me."

Paladin Lilymon runs up to holds Lily. "There you are!! You really must stop running off like this and vanishing. Everyone worries so much about you." Lily goes, "It's okay. All the talk over the recent months of the Megami and my role just got to me. Being reminded of something that awesome constantly placed a lot of stress and worry on me about if it is real or not, if I am the one to do it, then how, will my life ever be normal until I do it. Things like this I just couldn't take anymore, and I had to blow off this stress. Sorry." Paladin Lilymon holds Lily close. Outside, police cars swarm the front. Paladin Lilymon stares blankly at the path of destruction. "It wasn't the best way to handle your stress and frustration, but it's a lot better than I handled this!!" Shiro yells, "There she is!!" One of the cops goes, "I'll be damned. Get those Jupiter Grenades and the White Cuffs ready. Have your Dynamic Batons ready just in case." Lily goes, "Jupiter Grenades? White Cuffs? Dynamic Batons? I've never heard of these things." Paladin Lilymon turn to face them, and Laomon pulls Lily back. One of the cops throws a black canister at Paladin Lilymon, and shortly afterwards, and black blast is released, with electricity surging around it, and the air rippling in distortion. Slowly the sphere begins to collapse in on itself while she sits there seemingly frozen. "Cuffs now!!" A man takes a massive rifle with four claws on the end of it, lines up, and fires it, sending the four claws out towards her. These claws pass her, turn back, and slap onto her arms and legs. The cords retract towards the gun, and with no resistance, Paladin Lilymon is snapped from the spot she stood and sits bound on the end of the gun. They begin to read Paladin Lilymon her rights. Lily goes, "How did they pull that off so easily?" Gomamon goes, "Well, those weapons, they were developed during Lilymon's administration, except the White Cuffs, which just came out. Those other things are kinda obsolete now. Jupiter Grenades contain small batteries which work by reversing E=MC2 to turn energy into mass, creating a small temporary gravity field, slowing time in the blast area. White Cuffs are cuffs on a titanium reinforced silver rope mounted to a computerized gun, which accesses the target, direction of movement, and its speed, and fires four shackles out to grab the target. By using EMP shielding materials, and a core made two neodymium magnets with similar poles facing each other, the shackles a makeshift anti-gravity field, allowing it to operate outside the effects of the gravity well, and also lets the cop holding the cuffs to carry the suspect around like a bag of luggage. The Dynamic Batons work by using two spinning magnets to generate a magnetic field, blocking electrical attacks and disabling digimon. Problem is, most of this stuff is meant for detaining a single target, and then they only work up to the Giga level unless they don't struggle like she is doing, and Lunar, Gravity, and large digimon are immune to Jupiter Grenades. The real goods are usually in large megalopolises and the military, but even they can't hold off every type and race."

The officer totes the White Cuffs with Paladin Lilymon hanging from the bottom, basically hog-tied with her arms and legs behind her. A blank look of surprise covers her face as the upper and mid-torso sections of her armor hit the ground each time her carrier goes down a step, then he chucks her into the back of a paddy wagon with her still bound. Laomon is arguing with the cops. "But I said I wasn't going to file charges!!" The officer there goes, "I'm sorry, but she destroyed city property, and endangered lives with that stunt. It's a city matter now. By the way, you got permits to have all that lab equipment up there?" Laomon grins nervously. "Uh, hold on. I'm sure I do!!" She leans over to Kiki. "Quickly, see if you can forge something that looks official." Kiki goes, "No can do. Police is swarming the place, and we have no idea what they look like." The officer goes, "I couldn't help overhearing that conversation. Next time you want to speak privately, speak softer." He pulls out a pen and notebook, then rips out a sticky note type ticket and plasters it on her forehead, then reads Laomon and Kiki their rights. Laomon turns to Lily and yells, "Oh, you just had to scream, didn't you!!" They herd everyone into the wagon. They grab and begin to put him in when he exclaims, "Hey, I'm the one who called you guys!!" The officer goes, "Hey, that girl with the soaked pants leg mentioned you. That means you're a possible accomplice." He chucks him in too and closes the door. Shiro looks at Kiki. "You and your big mouth!! Now I'm going to jail too!!" Laomon goes, "Quiet, you two!! We have more important matters to worry about, and we shouldn't be bickering." Gomamon exclaims, "Hey, Gennai never had to get permits!!" Paladin Lilymon adds, "But he lived out in the middle of bumf***, so no one minded." Laomon exclaims, "Could someone get this ticket off my forehead? The glue's making me itch." Kiki goes, "I got it." She reaches over with her tail and pulls it off. "Damn." Laomon goes, "Damn? Damn's not good." She shows Laomon the ticket. She screams, "They have got to be kidding me!! I can't afford this!! What am I doing to do?! Oy… I haven't had a good day in 25 years!!"

At the station, they were booked quickly, except Lilymon, whom after having her necklace removed reverted, and had to be booked again. Lily was let go though, since they could not prove she had any involvement in the whole matter. Lily says, "Don't worry, grandmother. I'll get Lewis to get to bail money." The guard says, "Hate to say this, but today's Saturday. Ya can't post bail on a Saturday since the courts aren't open on Saturdays, and to even get bail set, you got to have an arraignment, and for that to happen the courts have to be open, and they aren't." Kiki goes, "You mean we got to stay here until Monday before we're arraigned?!" He nods, then flicks a TV on. "This is the DOOM-TV 4 five o'clock news, serving the Gabriel's Fjord area." Cameras fade to a nineteen-something blonde-haired woman wearing a UNC T-shirt, metal armlets on her biceps connected to fishnet stocking gloves, and cut-up faded jeans; and a Zanbamon standing in the shadows. The woman speaks while chewing some gum, "This is the five o'clock news. We'll have info on that big mysterious energy blast that almost killed us all at eleven, and for you bounty hunter types, the reward the mayor's office is offering for finding Vulcan Lilymon and bringing the `Great Lilymon Sister Mystery' to a close is now up to ¥365,000. If you wanna get rich, now's the time!! Now, to our top story." The Zanbamon in the shadows speaks, with a picture of Yuumei Omnimon in the corner. "As mentioned earlier, the Dominion today launched a new, and this time, brutal attack on the worlds, attacking Fort Wick with something called `Yuumei Omnimon.' Sources say the Digidestined are they're fighting him now, but are losing as we speak. Soon, they will fall, and all mankind will be doomed, and I, Zanbamon, the true Prince of Darkness, will reign supreme!!" The woman goes, "No you won't. You barely even got this job as it is." Zanbamon retorts, "The influence of the Prince of Darkness must spread through many outlets. This job is just part of my master plan!! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!!" The woman adds, "What plan? All you do all day is sit on your ass and dunk doughnuts in coffee, and you've been living with me since you got evicted last month. Not once have you planned or premeditated anything. Prince of Darkness my ass!!" Zanbamon retorts, "My plans… Secret… Moving on…" Lilymon mutters, "What's with this place's fixation on death and missing sisters?" Lily goes, "Why didn't I hear of this Yuumei Omnimon earlier?" Lilymon snaps out of her observation of the moment to answer, "Oh my, that's why I came in the first place, and then all this happened. See, your friends are fighting him as we speak, but I don't know how long they can hold out against an Omega." Lily cries out, "My friends… They could be all dead now, and I walked out on everyone. I must stop him!!" Lilymon goes, "How, you don't have a di…" Lily clenches her fists as cool breezes blow around her. The concrete floor around cracks and crumbles around her, rising into the air. The cop yells, "What are you doing?!" Suddenly, she changed over and was Yurisapia. Laomon exclaims, "I knew I was right!! If Attorneymon knew of this, he'd totally freak, and with that much power, I can understand now why he was scared of her so much!!" Lily looks to her grandmother. "I shall return." In a blast of light, she jumps up to her Mega form, then slowly rises into the air, and flies through the roof. Lilymon goes, "So that was what she was trying to show us when she returned."

Lily ascends to about 10,000 feet in the air. "Now, where is Fort Wick? Wait… There's a lot of smoke coming from there, and I'm getting a powerful signal from… Taichi?" She suddenly starts flying towards the signal.

Back at Fort Wick, the sun was beginning to set. Avalonmon was down to the marred armor on his shoulders, arms, the chain between his shoulders, a badly torn blood soaked pair of khaki pants, and the armor on his shins and knees, and Yuumei Omnimon still not much different from where we left off except for a new wound down the length of his back which also ripped his cloak. Metzger announces, "I'm amazed you've held on this long, but how much more can either of you take?" Taichi falls onto his hands, eyes rolled back in his head, vomiting, deathly pale, and shaking. Metzger, "Go ahead and put them out of their misery. We proved our point." Yuumei Omnimon walks over Avalonmon, whom tries to swing his sword, but is too weak to do so, and places him in a full nelson. Taichi falls out cold. Andromon checks his pulse. "This is bad. His pulse is 34 over 11 and falling." Tetsuo goes, "This is horrible, considering that normal pulse is 120 over 80." Avalonmon struggles with Yuumei Omnimon. "Give it up. You lack the strength to combat me anymore. Use those last breaths to prepare yourself for your departure from the mortal coil." Yuumei Omnimon moves his hands while still holding Avalonmon around his head, ready to snap his neck. "Taichi, I need just a little more power. I know you're weak, but I cannot escape him unless you do this…" From his unconscious state, it seems his prayer is heard, and one last burst of strength allows Avalonmon to rip free from Yuumei's grip. "It would seem I would have to do it the old-fashioned way." A voice then calls out, "Wait!! I'll handle him, Yuumei Omnimon." Attorneymon appears. "Think of the power I can draw from an Omega digimon, even one as beaten as this one!! To waste such an opportunity…" He looks at Avalonmon. "The mighty Avalonmon… Hah!!"

"Bureaucratic Red Tape!!"

He leaches onto Avalonmon, and the tape becomes blindingly white as it sucks up his last bits of strength. Masato yells, "Valkyrie Lotusmon, stop that tape!!" Valkyrie Lotusmon moves up with sword in hand. "I'm on it!!"

"Europa Crescent Crash!!"

The crescents fly out to the tape, but are smashed and bounced away upon contact. "What?!" Attorneymon laughs at her attempts. Out of the blue…

"Aura Bolt!!"

The white blast screamed out and hit Attorneymon in the side, pushing him away, and ripping the tape from his hands, and Avalonmon reverts to Botamon. Attorneymon impacts upon with unbelievable force. "Power like that… I haven't felt since that battle on the base… Who?" Ryo asks, "Who is it?" Jun goes, "I don't how or why, but it looks like Lily." Masato goes, "No. That is Lily!!" As quickly as she appeared, she accelerated faster, and upon reaching the sound barrier, jumped up to her Giga form.

"Kobushi no Junkyou!!"

The sonic boom behind her destroys the ground as she closes on the demon, and hits him in the gut, and flies deeper into the earth, releasing a blinding light in the strike. From over sixty feet away from where he first hit the ground and under two feet of dirt, Attorneymon climbs out. "Whomever attacked me has made their last mistake… I bleed?" He feels down around his chest and feels his blood pouring out, soaking his clothes, and more running from his mouth. "How can this be? The only ones to ever do this to me were Serafinmon and Malachimon, and neither are present." Lily goes, "I'm so glad I got here in time." Sakiko goes, "This is so amazing!! How did you learn to do this?" Lily goes, "It just happened." Attorneymon looks over at the group. "My wrath upon you all, vengeance for my wounds!!" He then sees Lily. "How? How can you be back?" Lily goes, "It was hard, but I fought my way back. Besides, I figured if I could kill you as the Omega District Attorneymon in the future, I could fight you here too." He thinks to himself, "That story seems bogus, but I'm afraid to think it to be the only way to explain these wounds." Attorneymon calls out, "Yuumei Omnimon, destroy her!!" He thinks again, "Maybe Avalonmon was too weak to gather any useful power." Yuumei Omnimon draws his cannon.

"THE SHARD OF MARTYRDOM!!"

"Demetesapia Terravolve to Magna Lilysapia!!"

Attorneymon is in disbelief. "She wasn't even at full power when she hit me? I must find a way to undermine her power."

"Duality of Life!!"

"Mana Cloud!!"

Attorneymon and Metzger are dumbfounded as Yuumei's shot is broke apart and scattered to the wind before reaching her. Yuumei Omnimon evaluates her for a moment, but that moment ends when he is forced to evade a storm of kicks from Lily. "I doubt that defense of yours can save you from any melee attacks." He swings his fist and misses her, then stops.

"Mithril Claws of the Celestial Order!!"

He charges her as he did Avalonmon, but Lily hovers still.

"Delta Crash!!"

The sequence finishes as he leaps up into the air with his claws ready. In mid-air it looks as though Yuumei Omnimon stops, and the tetrahedrons explode. Tearing apart the fabric of the air is a shriek of unimaginable suffering, his fall back to the ground with cloak asunder, shards in his chest and face, and burns across his chest and fists. "This… isn't happening!!" He stands once again.

"Shadow Flare!!"

Lily sees the beam lock onto her. She rushes towards him and hacks into him over and over. Yuumei Omnimon goes, "Your desperation will not save your life." Lily looks up and sees the flare closing in. "No. No it won't." Yuumei Omnimon grins, "So we agree." Lily goes, "No."

"Kin'iro no Kamikaze!!"

The attack begins, but he grabs her up in his hand as he falls back from the initial wave. "Too bad." He throws her into the sky uncontrollably, and finds herself right in the path of her own attack. The very leaves surrounding the beam of light aimed at her nemesis slash up her body as they make their way towards Yuumei Omnimon. "Those leaves hurt…" She says holding her bleeding shoulder, when she looks up to remember the Shadow Flare over her head. "Oh no." The flare strikes her in a flurry of macroexplosions followed by one behemoth release. At about the same time, Lily's Kin'iro no Kamikaze was reaching Yuumei Omnimon. "Silly leaves. I could blow… them… away?" The leaves start to glow as they pierce his body and explode out his backside. Smoke rises from his body as he weathers the light beam portion of the attack. Both of the fighters fall to the ground. Sakiko exclaims, "Did he? Is she?" Very groggily, Lily stands back up. Attorneymon actually looks silly for a change as he nervously paces and ponders. "How? From my knowledge of Digidestined digivolutions, the use of a Shard constitutes a Terra digimon, but she just weathered an Omega level attack just fine, and look at Yuumei Omnimon!! That last attack did that to him!! Maybe she was telling the truth after all. If so, I should prepare a new plan." Yuumei Omnimon shudders in pain on the ground. "How can her light hurt me? So sore… Just want the pain to end…" Lily grins a dark grin. "You want to pain to end? That can be arranged. I'll send back to very damned place you came from!!" Yuumei Omnimon goes, "A lab?" Lily doesn't even listen to him.

"Atlas Bolt!!"

She balances on her spear as Yuumei Omnimon screams in pain, blades of light blasting into him. Attorneymon smirks with delight. "That hatred!! It goes against the very nature of Sincerity!! It's so… unlike her. I think I just found my edge." He speaks to Metzger. "Get Yuumei Omnimon. We're leaving. This battle is lost." Metzger wants to object, but Attorneymon sternly points at the writhing Yuumei Omnimon. Lily screams, "Now I end you!!" She goes to slam her spear through his chest, but he suddenly vanishes. Into the sky, she bellows, "Return and fight me!! Cowards!!" Soon after, she slumps to her knees and returns to normal, crying, "I failed." Ryo exclaims, "She was so awesome!!" Tetsuo mentions, "She has a great power now, but I fear her new mentality. Did you see the look in her eyes? She looked like she was almost enjoying the pain she was giving Yuumei Omnimon, the glare in her eyes you'd only see in a sociopath or fanatic or lunatic. Something has driven her to express a level of hatred she normally would not have." Andromon goes, "We need to get Taichi and Botamon to a medical facility soon. Taichi's pulse is fading, and Botamon is badly wounded." Lily walks over. "I'm so sorry." Scarletmon asks, "What are you sorry for?"

Keiko opens the digiport and everyone emerges outside a hospital waiting room. Tetsuo rushes in carrying Taichi, and Jun carries Botamon. "Nurse!! Quickly!! He needs attention. His pulse is fading. The last time we checked it, it was down to 34 over 11!!" A woman behind a desk, black hair and thirty-ish, stands up. She blinks, muttering, her voice a high nasal voice, "34 over 11, 34 over 11… 34 over 11?" Finally, her face lights up, as though it just hit her, she exclaims, "That's bad!! I… I… I got to get you some help, but you have to fill out these forms first. It's standard policy, and I could get fired if you don't fill these out." Zenmon seems agitated. "Oh great. The hospital just had to hire Edith Bunker to run the triage desk. Well, he's good as dead." He turns to a homeless guy smoking nearby and snatches away the cigarette, and rubs it out on Taichi's forehead while talking. "Hey, don't do that in here. Can't you see there's sick people in here, eh?" The nurse says to Tetsuo, "But I can't let you by without signing the papers. They said I got to follow proper procedure." Tetsuo, "Uh…" Jun interrupts, "Hasn't observing Daisuke taught you anything about speaking to the slow-witted? You have to be thorough." She turns to the nurse. "I'm going to talk really slow, so you understand me. Okay? Now, this man is fading fast. Is there some way we can fill out these forms as he is being treated?" The nurse stands there lost in thought as though she had just asked for the meaning of life for about fifteen seconds, then her face lights up again. "Oh… Oh… Oh yeah, you can do that. I got to remember that. Go on by!! Wait… No… Are any of you related, because I can't let you past if none of you are related, because a relative has to fill out the forms, and I can't let you past unless you fill out the forms." Jun notions to Andromon, "Shoot her." He looks over and goes, "Okay." Tetsuo intervenes. "Hold on. There is no reason for violence." The nurse goes, "Well, are any of you related? If you aren't, I can't give you the forms until someone related comes to sign them, and there are other people waiting, because it's the rules." Tetsuo say in unison, "Where's a large metal pipe when you need one?!" Keiko goes up. "I'm related to him." The nurse goes, "Oh, that's okay then… Wait… Which one?" Tetsuo and Jun go over to Andromon. Tetsuo asks him, pointing to his robotic hand, "Can I see that for a moment?" Andromon asks, "What for?" Tetsuo, "You'll see." Andromon, curious about this request, removes his right hand. Jun takes it. "Tetsuo, let me do it. I'm a minor." She walks up to the counter and clobbers the nurse over the head. The ER applauds them. Jun goes, "Now Keiko, take the forms, and fill them out as we see if we can find someone who is competent. Let's roll!!" They carry them on past the doors, Keiko trying to fill out the forms. Keiko looks at the things it asks. "How am I supposed to know all this stuff about my grandfather? I guess I can wing it."

On the way home, Lewis and Bonnie talk. "Okay, you know when Mimi finds out the shit is going to hit the fan, big time. Honestly, the only way I know how to placate her is to buy her something big, flashy, and pretty, but then my wife will want something, and that just costs a lot of money. Besides, I don't know if I buy her forgiveness this time. Say, know any places we can hide out until the heat is off?" Bonnie mentions, "Well, there is old Highball's place in the Bahamas. Renford `Highball' Balister. He's a retired hacker my dad and me know. We used to visit him a lot. Called him `Highball' since he loved pool, orange juice, and highballs. Why do you ask?" Lewis goes, "Oh nothing, just that there's Mimi, and she looks a little peeved." Mimi yells, "Peeved?! I'll show you peeved!!" She starts wheeling towards them. Lewis blurts, "We must flee in terror." They run from her as fast as they can. "Get back here so I can hurt you!!" Lewis goes, "Let's go pay old Highball a visit." In a flash, they're gone. Mimi clenches her fists. "Oooohh…… You and your teleporting!! You got to come back home sometime!!"

In the Dominion HQ, Heramon sits. A Bakemon tells her to deliver some information to Attorneymon. Heramon fondles around with her hair and primps herself. "Oh, I hope he notices me. I've been waiting to make my move ever since that Laomon bimbo came along." In the conference room, looking at the Digital World below, Attorneymon paces. "As I watched, and felt, what happened today, I've come to the conclusion that if I ever had any doubts of what that old man believed in, I have no more. That girl has something to do with the Megami. If that power is allowed to increase further, it'll all be over. Wait, she said I had found another Nexus in the future… Maybe the scriptures of the Age of Holy Wars that followed the fall of Atlantis was flawed… Atlantis!! Why didn't I think of this sooner!! If I could just find the place… Dammit!! It was so long ago!! Think…" Heramon walks in. "Sir, I just came to inform you that Yuumei Omnimon is recovering nicely and should ready again by the end of the month, and that Metzger found something of great importance." Attorneymon turns. "He did, did he?" Heramon goes, "It is a piece of Palacin crystal, but not any normal crystal. The lab confirmed it is in a piece from the very gem possessed by Paladin Lilymon." Attorneymon is piqued by her message. "Palacin from Paladin Lilymon, you say? Do you know how useful that damned material is to me? None!! You know we can't use Paladin digimon!!" Heramon replies, "But sir, Yuumei Omnimon is a Dark Paladin. Can't we find a way to convert it to make another Dark Paladin?" Attorneymon goes, "Maybe. For now though, lock it away. One day I might just find a use for it." Heramon goes, "Sir, we were also unable to locate Tamiko." Attorneymon answers, "Forget him. He's expendable. I only needed him to make Yuumei Omnimon a reality. Tell the lab to start producing Dark Towers in the interim. Now, I resign to my chamber for the night. Don't bother me again, woman." The door closes. Heramon turns and thinks, "I think he likes me!! He called me woman!! He's only called one other `woman,' and it was that Wicked Lilymon, and we all know he had a thing for her. Oh, little bengoshi!!" She closes her eyes and hugs herself, followed by a squeal of delight. Fenrirmon and a human guard walk down the hall. Fenrirmon asks, "What's her problem?" The guard replies, "I don't know. Maybe she just loves herself." In the ductwork, a figure sits. Stefan's voice whispers, "He seeks Atlantis!! What power he would have if he found it!! Why couldn't they have allowed me to stop this at the very beginning? Now, because of the High Council's petty bureaucracy and that unforeseen event at the funeral, I'm alone in the matter. Why didn't I just do like G`ren Nadir said and just ignored the Council's orders to wait until 2045. I could have stopped this a long time ago, and I missed an opportunity just two weeks ago. You know what? It's time I started doing things my way, but at the time being, it'd be impossible here. I got to do it when he's out and about."

Takeru narrates, "Over the next week, new things have happened. In the jail cell, Lilymon did not get bail, but since it was found that the worst her mega-tsunami temper tantrum did was some ecological damage, she was sentenced to community service, having to replant the whole forest she washed away, repairing Laomon's house, and court-ordered anger management therapy sessions. The others, seeing this as their excuse, wrangled Sirenamon, Armajimon, Zenmon, and Yolei into the whole matter and made it one big group session. Jun was found guilty of assault in juvenile court and now finds her weekends spent side by side with Lilymon replanting the forest." Jun, "You'd think they would understand a life or death situation." Lilymon, "Yep. You think your grandchild is in danger and you cause one little mega-tsunami, and they jump down your throat!! I'm beginning to hate forests more and more each day I got to do this. Yaahhhh!!! Rabid badger!! Get it off!!" The cop there goes, "It's not rabid, it's just that you woke it from its hibernation, and now is really pissed." She drops and rolls, trying to wrestle the dug in biting badger off her. "Laomon was not indicted on any drug charges, but was forced to pay her fine, and buy a permit for all her stuff, and that cost a pretty penny…" "If she ever comes home, I hope my sis understands I had to sell all her stuff." Gomamon goes, "Look on the bright side. At least you're getting your house repaired for free." "Shiro and Kiki were released since they had no major involvement in the whole mess, but petty sibling feuding in the Whitehaven home is up 50%. Sora continued her physical therapy, and once she received the news of Taichi's condition, she was able to negotiate a way to get her remaining therapy moved back to Japan. Koushiro still looks like a blueberry from his squeezing. Lewis and Bonnie still hide from Mimi's wrath in the Bahamas…" They sit on a beach in their swimsuits at night. Lewis goes, "You think she's cooled off yet?" Bonnie goes, "I hope so. I want to see how Taichi is doing." Lewis goes, "Yeah, I'm worried too, but I also don't want to be his roommate, if you know what I mean. At least we got one thing going for us right now, at that it's winter." Bonnie goes, "The sun can kiss my pale ass!!" Lewis goes, "Hey, I made some napalm. Wanna roast some weenies?" Bonnie shrugs her shoulders and goes, "Okay." "They had to leave the next day. The explosion gave old Highball a heart attack. Speaking of missing people, Vulcan Lilymon and Tamiko are still lost wandering aimlessly in the woods." Tamiko, "Say, I swear we should have went the other way." Vulcan Lilymon goes, "What? You don't trust me? I know where I'm going. We should find something civilized anytime now." From an aerial view, it shows more than 200 miles of rolling forests and purple mountain majesty ahead before reaching anything close to civilization. "Attorneymon began development of his new Dark Tower Troopers, as Arachnemon sits in a suspension tube hooked to feeding tubes, air, and receives daily injections of a hair growth chemical directly to her scalp. Finally, we get to today, a week after all I mentioned, when Lewis and Bonnie return, and something special happens."

In a hospital room, Mimi sits with the still unconscious Taichi. Mimi asks solemnly, "Taichi, why did you have to go and do such a foolish thing, and after I said not to? They say it may be a couple more weeks before you come completely out of your weakened state. I'm just glad for those one or two hours you can snap out of it now." The door slowly opens and Sora & Koushiro come in. "Hi. Has he come around today?" Mimi goes, "No. Not yet." Koushiro goes, "I'm already at work trying to figure out how Lewis did it, breaking into something as secure as one can afford without getting the government to protect it, so this will never happen again." Slowly the door opens. "I hope you aren't still mad." Mimi hobbles at the door with a cane. "You finally decide to return!!" Lewis goes, "Here we go." He quickly ducks her fist and then sleeperholds her, then pulls out a bottle of chloroform and snags the chair wielding Koushiro and knocks him out. "Well, that takes care of that. Now…" He turns around to be greeted by a hiss and the five pneumatic metal knuckles of Sora's left hand kissing the right side of his jaw, and Lewis goes flying over Taichi, through the wall, and lands in the wall of the next room, and falls onto his knees. Sora goes, "I'm tired of you and your larceny sprees!! Are you… crying?" Lewis' eyes are all watered up as he sits there holding his jaw. He whines, "What did I do to you? I didn't help a husband go against the wishes of his wife as with Mimi, and I didn't undermine the very system designed to keep the world out as with Koushiro…" He spits out a couple of his teeth, and goes into a state of shoujo prissy girl bawling (Got nothing against shoujo, folks. Just needed a reference). Lily and Sakiko come in with a tired, weathered Lilymon in overalls and a white shirt. Sora's face lightens, and almost has a look of regret. "I guess because Taichi and you had the guts to do the right thing."

Will Attorneymon find what he seeks? Who is Stefan really working for? Will Tamiko and Vulcan Lilymon ever find civilization again? What of Lily's rage? Did Lewis' awkward moment get caught on film? Find out in Bloodline: Chapter 12 - "Digimon in Group Therapy" or "Run, Lily, Run!!"

Araiya, "Dammit, I knew I should of brought the camera!!"